Well how about that!  I had no idea that was why it was not working!

I rarely use gvim, it takes me too far from the shell,  I'm using vim
in the terminal.  Thanks!

On Nov 11, 9:44 pm, Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-11-11, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a mapping:
>
> > " set vim to give me page down on spacebar
> > nmap <Space> <C-F>
>
> > Now, how do I get Shift-space to give me <C-B> ?  I've tried a whole
> > bunch of them, and they dont seem to work...
>
> Are you using vim or gvim?
>
> In gvim running on a Red Hat Linux system, I can enter insert mode,
> type Ctrl-K, then hold the Shift key while hitting the space bar and
> see this
>
>    <S-Space>
>
> I can then execute this mapping,
>
>    :namp <S-Space> <C-B>
>
> and it works just fine.
>
> In vim running in an xterm, however, the Ctrl-K Shift-Space sequence
> shows nothing.  Further, while in insert mode, typing Ctrl-V
> followed by a space with the Shift key held down just inserts a
> space.  This demonstrates that xterm doesn't produce a special
> character sequence for the Shift-Space combination, so there's no
> way to use that key combination for a map or anything else.
>
> HTH,
> Gary
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