On 2009-04-28, Pablo Giménez wrote: > Hi vims. > Well I haveaa buch of keymaos using the Shift key that works perfectly in > gvim, but not in the terminal, for instance:
[...] > I use these mappings to make selections using the shift key as in regular > editors, but no one og them do nothing in the terminal. > The thing that is strange for me is that these other maps works: > nnoremap <C-S-Left> vb > nnoremap <C-S-Right> ve > vnoremap <C-S-Left> b > vnoremap <C-S-Right> e > inoremap <C-S-Left> <Esc><Left>vb > inoremap <C-S-Right> <Esc><Right>ve > > So I guess that meybe the problem is with the PageDown/Up and Home/End keys > and not with the Shift. > Any ideas???? GUI programs such as gvim receive keyboard input in the form of keycodes, that is, some indication of which key was typed along with any modifier keys that were being pressed at the time. Terminal emulators also receive keyboard input in this form, but they send to their client programs (such as vim) only 8-bit characters. Some keys such as the arrow keys and the function keys (f1, et al.) are indicated to the clients by sequences of 7-bit (ASCII) characters. For example, when I press the left arrow on this keyboard, the terminal emulator sends <esc>OD to vim, where <esc> is the ASCII Escape character, decimal value 27. Terminal emulators typically send unique characters or sequences of characters beginning with the Escape character (escape sequences) only for symbols visible on the keyboard, not for arbitrary combinations of keys and modifiers. Notable exceptions, as you have discovered, are the arrow keys with Shift and/or Ctrl modifiers to allow terminal-based editors to adopt popular GUI editor paradigms. So, you're not going to be able to use with vim in a terminal all the mappings you can use with gvim. Which ones you can use depends on the particular terminal emulator you're using. To find out what character or charter sequence your terminal is emitting for a given key, put vim into insert mode, type Ctrl-V, then type the key in question. If Home and Shift-Home, for example, generate the same character sequence, then vim won't be able to distinguish them. HTH, Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
