Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Re: Trouble with alt/meta mappings

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Hi,

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:37:20 +0200
Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:

> Try reading ":help map-alt-keys", it might give you some
> enlightenment for your trial-and-error procedure.

Thank you for the suggestion. Could you elaborate on what you wanted me
to find there? AFAICT I tried everything relevant mentioned there and
described that I did in my original post. Did I miss anything?

> Note that é (0xE9) is seen by Vim as the same as Alt-i (i.e. 0x80 +
> 0x69); so hitting alt-i in Insert mode should insert the é letter
> (with me it does, in gvim for GTK2/Gnome2), and hitting the é key (if
> you have one — I do, on my AZERTY keyboard) should trigger any
> mapping defined for <M-i> for the mode you are in.

AFAIU gvim behaves a lot different than plain vim in a terminal!
And I think I described pretty well what happens when I press what in
my original post.

Thank you for answering, but I'm not sure how your post was supposed to
help me. Could you please elaborate?

Thanks and best regards

henk

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