On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:32:57AM -0800, BrianP wrote: > > Hi, > When installing gvim72.exe on windoz xp, the cut (^x), copy (^c), > select_all (^a) and paste (^v) functions all work well. And the shift- > arrow-keys select areas of text.
> And, searches highlight all occurrences of the target which is
> extremely handy for source code editing.
set hlsearch
> On Linux, these keys are all set to their "classic", 1978 vintage,
> useless functions.
Completion (C-X) is useless? Selecting text (C-V) is useless? I'm sure
C-A has it's use as well.
> How can I get the efficient, win32 behavior on Ubuntu Linux?
>
> I have tried putting the following lines in my ~/.gvimrc file with no
> effect:
> behave mswin
> source /usr/share/vim/vim71/mswin.vim
>
> What am I missing here? And, I Cream is too dumbed down.
Actually nothing, the source line brings windows-like key bindings here.
-Erik
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