On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:57 AM, bjorn.winckler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 21, 7:54 pm, Hari Krishna Dara <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've refrained from comment so far because I've only been a Mac user >> > for a few months, having migrated from Solaris. The original >> > questioner asked about idiosyncracies of gvim on Macs and, to date, I >> > don't think anyone has pointed out the one thing that irks me somewhat. >> >> I am a new user of osx and MacVim, so not sure if this should be >> called an idiosyncrasy, but when I wanted to use "Caps Lock" to act as >> a Control key for the sake of Vim, and a few keys to be rebound in >> other apps to use Control instead of Meta (to feel more at home as a >> windows user with intel keyboard) I started having issues with MacVim >> seeing them as well. E.g., I had Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V etc. mapped to their >> windows equivalents (via >> ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict), I lost the ability to >> start visual mode in vim with the Ctrl+V key (it ends up pasting >> clipboard). I think MacVim is way too well integrated, to the point >> that it is undesirable. > > This was fixed in snapshot 48 -- the DefaultKeyBinding.dict is now > ignored completely. > > Note: I am not in the habit of reading the vim_use group (only in > digest mode) so please use the vim_mac list if you have any issues > with MacVim. > > I'd also like to point out that the Mac GUI that comes with the > official Vim sources are completely outdated (Tony F: I am guessing > that you are using this version). Please go to > > http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ > > to get an up-to-date and actively maintained GUI version for the Mac. >
Cool... didn't realize it was considered a bug so didn't bother to report. Thanks for the update. -- HTH, Hari > > Björn > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
