On 12/01/09 03:28, zhengquan wrote:
> Hi Charles, I think we are close to the solution to the problem.
>
> On Jan 2, 7:12 pm, "Charles E. Campbell, Jr."
> <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
>> I constructed the following two maps by pressing ctrl-v and then alt-i
>> after typing "nmap ". They "work for me"; that's not to say that the
>> email won't mutilate it nor that your terminal interface will deliver
>> the same thing in vim's case.
>>
>> if has("gui_running")
>> nmap é :echo "gvim's alt-i"<cr>
>> else
>> nmap i :echo "vim's alt-i"<cr>
>> endif
>>
> I copied this code snippet to my .vimrc and tried in mlterm, but alt-i
> still inserts a small e acute... in gvim alt-i inserts correctly,
> Could you tell how can I debug the mappings?
>
> Thank you very much, I am pretty headstrong and don't want to use
> another mapping for the insertion.
>
> Zhang
Small e-acute is the value internally used by Vim to represent Alt-i.
If, without any mappings, Ctrl-V Alt-i inserts the same é for you on
both gvim and Console Vim, it means it is recognized correctly.
You could try
:nmap <M-i> :echo 'Alt-i'<CR>
If it works (in Normal mode), Vim sees alt-i correctly. However, it is
never able to distinguish between Alt-i and small-é-acute, which means
you should avoid using Alt-i for an Insert-mode {lhs} if you use
languages like French, Spanish or Hungarian (all of which make heavy use
of that letter), Chinese pinyin with tone marks, or even the English
language with loanwords like /risqué jokes/ or /rosé wine/.
I notice (by the Ctrl-V prefix trick) that on my system, Alt-i generates
Esc i in Console Vim in both the KDE konsole and the Linux terminal. So
I might use
:if has('gui_running')
: nmap <M-i> :echo "gvim's Alt-i"<CR>
:else
: nmap <Esc>i :echo "vim's Alt-i"<CR>
:endif
or even
:nmap <M-i> :echo "gvim's Alt-i"<CR>
:nmap <Esc>i :echo "vim's Alt-i"<CR>
for a test similar to Dr. Chip's.
Best regards,
Tony.
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