Re: Why does Vim not distinguish right and left CTRL, SHIFT, ALT keys ?

Thanks Ben, very clear and helpful.

2013/5/23 Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:20:43 PM UTC-5, Donie Leigh wrote:
>> Operations in Vim is heavily based on keyboard, since the right CTRL,
>>
>> SHIFT, ALT keys are rarely used, why does Vim not distinguish them
>>
>> from the left ones ? That will clearly make great convenience .
>
> Very few programs can actually do that. Vim is worse because it's designed to also work in old terminals that only send a single byte for a CTRL combined with a keypress according to the ASCII standard. Vim works with what it is given.
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