On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:34:48PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:18:19AM +0200, Wojciech Pilorz wrote:
> > 2006/4/13, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > > Wojtek Pilorz wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have build gvim 7.0d on Fedora Core 4 as
> > > > 'Big version with GTK2 GUI.'
> > > >
> > > > I have noticed the following behaviour with multple tab pages (gvim);
> > > >
> > > > 1. You can switch with Ctrl-Pgup - Ctrl-PgDown when in normal mode;
> > > > In insert and replace mode you need to type Ctrl-O Ctrl-Pgup/PgDown
> > > > (perhaps should be documented?)
> > >
> > > It is documented.
> > I could not find that, at least in tabpage.txt.
> > And I do not think it is obvious.
>
> I find this no less obvious than not being able to switch windows or
> buffers while in insert mode. It's called insert mode for a reason.
> Beginners may be confused by this, but I think that's more because they
> usually haven't fully grasped the concept of Vim being a modal editor.
I agree that "it" is not documented, where "it" means the fact that
the help for Ctrl-Pgup does not mention that this works only in Normal
mode. It is "implicitly documented" in the sense that there is no tag
for i_CTRL-<Pageup>, and it is not mentioned under ins-special-special ,
but that only helps if you already know vim (and its docs) pretty well.
If you want vim to behave that way, then
:inoremap <C-PageUp> <C-O><C-PageUp>
:inoremap <C-PageDown> <C-O><C-PageDown>
ought to do it. Similarly, you can switch windows (with the mouse, for
example) while in Insert mode. If you care to search the archives
(back a few years, perhaps) you will find that I gave advice on how to
do this, mapping <LeftMouse> and using window-local variables.
:help design-flexible
HTH --Benji Fisher
