On Saturday 20 December 2008 3:49 am, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > On 20/12/08 10:03, Andrew Long wrote: > > On 20 Dec 2008, at 04:07, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > > > ><snip/> > >> IIUC, Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right to move left/right by words are among > >> the > >> default key bindings of Vim. If they don't work when you hit them, not > >> even after loading Vim with "-N -u NONE" (without quotes) on its > >> (shell) > >> command-line, then there is something wrong about how these keys are > >> passed to Vim. Maybe your terminal or window manager doesn't pass them > >> at all, or maybe it strips away the Ctrl modifier, or maybe it doesn't > >> respect its own termcap/terminfo table, I don't know. Here are a few > >> troubleshooting hints: > >> > > On my Mac (Leopard 10.5.6), CTRL=Left, Right, Up or Down are grabbed by > > Spaces to move the viewport between diffeent virtual screens... > > > > Regards, Andy > > > > Hm, I see. On my Linux system with KDE, Ctrl-Fn is grabbed by the KDE > window manager to move the focus to virtual desktop n. (I have 20 of > them but of course only the first 12 are accessible that way; for the > others, I can use Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-Shift-Tab to move to next or > previous, or the mouse to click the appropriate desktop icon on the > taskbar.) Ctrl-arrow keys are not grabbed, and many applications use > them to move the cursor (Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right to move horizontally > by words, Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End to go to top or bottom of a document, > etc.) -- lucky me!
if your mouse has a wheel another method of changing desktops is to roll the mouse-wheel while the pointer is on the desktop lucky us! sc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
