No, this is a sporadic thing.  The weird thing is that vim is obviously 
recognizing that I hit the F2 key (since it inserts <F2>) but it isn't 
performing the action that's associated with F2.

----- Original Message ----
From: John Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 4:40:17 AM
Subject: Re: Why does "<F2>" sometimes get inserted in the text?

John Wiersba wrote:
> When I press F2, rather than doing the action associated with F2?  Sometimes 
> when this >happens, it will happen again, but often it won't repeat for a 
> while.

It sounds like you have the mapping defined in normal mode, with :map,
but not in insert mode, with :map!.  Often with Vim one needs two
mappings; for example, I use

map  <F7>    :noh<CR>
map! <F7>   <C-O>:noh<cr>

to turn off search highlighting till the next search.  Note that the
:map! version has to leave insert mode temporarily; that's why they're
separate.  vi was like this.

Apologies if I'm off the mark.

John





 
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