Thursday, August 27, 2009

Re: [SOT: Slightly Offtopic]: NoDeadKeys under WinXP with gvim

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> at work I am using gvim on a WinXP PC while I am using
> vim (console) at home on my Linux Box.
> I am interested in getting gvim act at work like vim at home.
>
> One of the most annoying things are the dead keys on Windows.
> Each regexp, which includes ^ comes out in spain, german, french
> or what else language uses accents...sigh.
>
> Is there any way to "kill" the dead keys to become "no dead keys"
> as with X?
> Since I am not allowed to use/install executables others as such
> allowed by the local system administration I am interested in
> solutions, which does not the use of "foreign executables".
> For examples modifications of the registry or vim scripts/vimrc
> tricks or such are no problem to use...
>
> Thank you very much for any help in advance!
> Best regards and have a nice weekend!
> mcc

Hm. If you have permissions to modify the registry, you should have
permissions to just use the keyboard preferences control panel to set
the keyboard layout to US 104 Key and remove the dead keys totally.

~Matt

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