Thanks Tony,
the output of the two verbose commands shows no mappings. It is quite
possible that the mlterm does not pass the alt-i combo to vim... I am
wondering how to make alt-i passable to vim in mlterm.

Regards,
Zhang


On Jan 2, 1:26 pm, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 02/01/09 19:50, zhengquan wrote:
>
> > Dear vim users:
> > I found that using Alt-I to insert an \item does not work in mlterm.
> > xterm is ok. I wonder some mlterm features are blocking the alt-I
> > combo.
>
> > Thanks for any pointers and Happy new year.
>
> > Zhang
>
> Alt-I is not a standard Vim binding. You might try to see how it is
> defined and by what:
>
>         :verbose map <M-I>
>         :verbose map! <M-I>
>
> (both with and without the exclamation mark, and while editing the file
> where you expected to use the Alt-I combo, not while looking at the
> help). Then you may remap the same {rhs} to a different {lhs} which Vim
> is more likely to see in all terminals, e.g. F7 which is about
> vertically above the I on a QWERTY, QWERTZ or AZERTY keyboard.
>
> Or you can even take advantage of the fact that mappings defined without
> "nore-" will reinterpret their {rhs} for further mappings:
>
>         :map <F7> <M-I>
>         :map! <F7> <M-I>
>
> (Some terminals and some window managers don't pass all key combos to
> programs running in them. Also, Alt-letter combinations are usually
> mapped to menus, and your mlterm might just have a menu starting in I.)
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> --
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