* Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> 
> On 22/03/09 13:16, Matt Wozniski wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> > Aha, I think I see what's going on here.
> >
> > Andreas: Do you need to hold alt (or option) to type characters like&
> > and<  with the keyboard layout you've chosen?  If so, my guess is that
> > what's going wrong is that you're holding alt too long, and typing
> > alt+space after finishing the&  or<  which causes OS X to insert a
> > nonbreaking space instead of a normal space.  Why they would ever
> > include a 2-key combination to insert a character that most people
> > will never ever want to type, I have no idea... And I'm also not savvy
> > enough with OS X to know if you can turn off that behavior, but it
> > would explain why you only see the behavior 'sometimes' - because
> > you're actually typing a different character sometimes.

Thank you very much that exactly seems to be my problem, I need to
hold the option key to get these characters.

> Hm, one way to disable it (only in Vim, of course) would be
> 
>       :map!  <Char-0xA0>  <Space>

I added this to my .vimrc and everything works fine now.
-- 
Best regards, and thanks for your help,
          Andreas Klein

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