I'm sure this is just how it is instead of being a bug but I didn't find
what I was looking for in the help files so...
Way back when, I used Brief as my only text editor (DOS/Windows) and
that meant heavy use of the Alt key. When I switched to VIM I gradually
replaced all my Alt key habits with <leader> whatever so I could switch
to terminals as necessary and continue to work. The one set of keys I
still use all the time is Alt-n and Alt-p for next and previous buffers.
I also sometimes edit old C programs that had "ASCII graphics" in the
comments to create boxes etc. The default encoding of "latin1" doesn't
show those correctly so I created a map to toggle between an encoding of
"latin1" and "8bit-cp437". After a while I decided to default to cp437
since everything else looked OK but then I noticed that Alt-n and Alt-p
stopped working.
I find that if I'm in "latin1" and (in insert mode) type ctrl-v alt-n to
insert the character then get get out of insert mode and put the cursor
on the character and use "ga" to see what it is I get <M-n> but if I do
the same thing when the encoding is "cp437" I get <M-^L>.
As I said, this is probably just how it is but I figured I'd ask...
Thanks,
- Dave
