Re: Using no hard line breaks

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Chris Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 03:57:17AM EST, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 02:37:33PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> [..]
>
>> Buuuut, I don't understand how <Esc> becomes alt/meta, and my vim
>> needs:
>
>> :map <M-j> gj
>>
>> to gain the described benefit.
>
> I vaguely remember having problems with <M-> mappings at one point and
> discovered that <Esc> worked.
>
> Too busy to look into it and for consistency's sake continued using
> the latter syntax.
>
> Time I revisited and straightened this out.. ;-)

Explanations at:
:help :map-alt-keys
:help xterm-8bit

Gist: Depending on settings, some terminal emulators represent
<Alt>+<key> as <key> with it's 8th bit set. Others represent
<Alt>+<key> as <Esc> followed by <key>.

--
Best,
Ben

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