On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:00:15 +0100 Jürgen Krämer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gevisz schrieb am 02.11.2014 um 19:44: > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 14:51:24 +0200 Gevisz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I use gvim from xfce4 and sometimes get into a strange > >> situation when pressing : while being in a normal mode > >> leads not to the command line mode but instead highlights > >> the icon "Copy to clipboad". > >> > >> Just now I have noted that in this situation I also cannot > >> see the version of my gvim via the Help menu (but saving via > >> the the "Save current file" icon usually works). > >> > >> The output from the :version command (executed from a newly > >> started gvim) is as follows: > >> > > <skipped> > >> > >> Any ideas how to fix it? > >> > >> And whom to blame? (Except for myself, of course. :) > >> My first guess that something is wrong with xfce4 here. > > > > I cannot describe how to reproduce this behavior but usually > > it appears after the following steps: > > > > 1. I work with gvim and firefox. > > 2. After finishing working with gvim, I turn to firefox, > > go to a news site and look through all its Twitter > > news band that is somehow embedded into its webpage. > > On this step I also open new tabs from the news band. > > 3. I return to gvim and try to save and close it using > > :wq command but it does not work any more as : sends > > focus to the "Copy to clipboard" icon. > > when this happens again you might want to check if there is a mapping > defined for ":" and where it was defined. Normally you would execute > the command > > :verb map : > > which probably won't work in this case. But there is the command-line > window which you can open with > > q: > > You will see the last line of your command-line history and the cursor > will be located on an empty line. You can now use normal Vim commands > to enter "verb map :". After you have entered the command and left > insert mode with <ESC> you can execute the command by pressing <Enter> > while the cursor is on the command. Thank you. I will try. Sorry that have kept that window open till this morning.
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