skywind3000 wrote: > As ':help :map-alt-keys': > -------------------- > By default Vim assumes that pressing the ALT key sets the 8th bit of a typed > character. Most decent terminals can work that way, such as xterm, aterm and > rxvt. If your <A-k> mappings don't work it might be that the terminal is > prefixing the character with an ESC character. But you can just as well type > ESC before a character, thus Vim doesn't know what happened (except for > checking the delay between characters, which is not reliable). > > As of this writing, some mainstream terminals like gnome-terminal and konsole > use the ESC prefix. There doesn't appear a way to have them use the 8th bit > instead. Xterm should work well by default. Aterm and rxvt should work well > when started with the "--meta8" argument. You can also tweak resources like > "metaSendsEscape", "eightBitInput" and "eightBitOutput". > --------------------- > > in the modern terminals (like iTerm / gnome-terminal), typing unicode > characters will be encoded as utf-8 and transfer to vim, which may > contains the 8th bit. > > Will vim recognize utf-8 data stream as some meta-* key strokes ? > > Should I always set <M-a> - <M-z> to ^[a - ^[z in terminal to avoid > that mistake ?
Sure, setting the 8th bit and then utf-8 encoding it works just fine. The mode where pressing Alt results in prepending ESC is something that should never have happened, it was a mistake. -- Laughing helps. It's like jogging on the inside. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
