On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:00:15 +0100 Jürgen Krämer <jottkaerr@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Gevisz schrieb am 02.11.2014 um 19:44:
> > On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 14:51:24 +0200 Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I use gvim from xfce4 and sometimes get into a strange
> >> situation when pressing : while being in a normal mode
> >> leads not to the command line mode but instead highlights
> >> the icon "Copy to clipboad".
> >>
> >> Just now I have noted that in this situation I also cannot
> >> see the version of my gvim via the Help menu (but saving via
> >> the the "Save current file" icon usually works).
> >>
> >> The output from the :version command (executed from a newly
> >> started gvim) is as follows:
> >>
> > <skipped>
> >>
> >> Any ideas how to fix it?
> >>
> >> And whom to blame? (Except for myself, of course. :)
> >> My first guess that something is wrong with xfce4 here.
> >
> > I cannot describe how to reproduce this behavior but usually
> > it appears after the following steps:
> >
> > 1. I work with gvim and firefox.
> > 2. After finishing working with gvim, I turn to firefox,
> > go to a news site and look through all its Twitter
> > news band that is somehow embedded into its webpage.
> > On this step I also open new tabs from the news band.
> > 3. I return to gvim and try to save and close it using
> > :wq command but it does not work any more as : sends
> > focus to the "Copy to clipboard" icon.
>
> when this happens again you might want to check if there is a mapping
> defined for ":" and where it was defined. Normally you would execute
> the command
>
> :verb map :
>
> which probably won't work in this case. But there is the command-line
> window which you can open with
>
> q:
>
> You will see the last line of your command-line history and the cursor
> will be located on an empty line. You can now use normal Vim commands
> to enter "verb map :". After you have entered the command and left
> insert mode with <ESC> you can execute the command by pressing <Enter>
> while the cursor is on the command.
Thank you. I will try.
Sorry that have kept that window open till this morning.
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