On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 03:14:36PM EST, Tim Chase wrote: > On 01/28/2011 12:14 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>> In my environment, this causes the<Alt+I> combo to send<Esc> to >> Vim.. and it looks like it might work with no side effects -- I first >> checked in insert mode that<Alt+I> did not do anything that I could >> see and I don't remember ever using it for anything else (?). > > The only catch is that (depending on your encoding and other stellar > alignments) some alt+letter combinations produce various accented > & ASCII characters >128. Sounds promising.. Straight US-ASCII boy that I am.. this shouldn't be a problem. Matter of fact, the first thing I do to an XTerm is make sure the 8th bit is disabled, so I can use Alt+. in the shell to retrieve the last word of the previous command. As in: | $ mkdir foofoofoobarbarbar | $ cd Alt+. # gives me: cd foofoofoobarbarbar etc. I use this all the time. > If you type those characters intentionally (which it sounds like you > don't), it may interfere. Otherwise, they should be safe to use (as > mentioned in a sibling reply, they're case-sensitive). I usually enter such characters either via the compose key, level three mappings accessed by pressign the Winkeys, or occasionally Vim digraphs. Thanks, cj -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
