Re: Strange reaction of gvim to : in a normal mode

On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 16:25:19 -0600 Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2014, Gevisz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It almost sounds to me like there's unusual keyboard mapping going on.
> Do you use Vimperator, by chance?

No. Just found out what it is. Sounds interesting.

I do not know how to get the list of all installed plugins
but, from what I can remember, I use Pathogen and UltiSnips.

Also installed Snippet but it does not work. Probably, I should delete it.

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