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 official Vim sources are completely outdated (Tony F: I am guessing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
> >
>

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