I am switching from windows to linux for my development environment, and working on 'porting' my .vimrc file. I have tons of Alt key remappings, but I am having trouble getting them working in plain vim (i.e. not gvim) from a bash shell.
For instance, the mapping :inoremap <a-b> foo does not work because vim does not seem to recognize the alt key. If I use the 'Ctrl-V Alt-b' approach, I end up with this: :noremap ^[b foo which does work, but the :map command show that it really maps to <esc>b However, this is really annoying, because when I want to escape from insert mode, vim hesitates for a second to make sure that I really want just '<esc>', rather than '<esc>b'. Is there a way I can get vim to use alt key remappings, without mapping them to the <esc> key? If this is really an XWindows or KDE config problem rather than a vim problem, then please point me to the appropriate list/newsgroup/forum. I am running Vim 6.4.7 in Fedora Core 5. My shell is KDE Konsole, but I see the same problem from xterm. -- Mike
