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| author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2005-12-17 22:02:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2005-12-17 22:02:57 +0000 |
| commit | 97d29a1ace00a173b7aa30ee1a4ae71a7e91bed3 (patch) | |
| tree | 19d7a984e089f9701c3e43f7154844931c643b3f /runtime/doc/map.txt | |
| parent | 146522e760717283465d58327be5cfd29434dfe5 (diff) | |
| download | vim-git-97d29a1ace00a173b7aa30ee1a4ae71a7e91bed3.tar.gz | |
updated for version 7.0172
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| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/map.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/map.txt b/runtime/doc/map.txt index d75343a7f..90ebe06eb 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/map.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/map.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*map.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Dec 12 +*map.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Dec 17 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ always work. But in a terminal Vim gets a sequence of bytes and has to figure out whether ALT was pressed or not. By default Vim assumes that pressing the ALT key sets the 8th bit of a typed -character. Most decent terminals work that way, such as xterm, aterm and +character. Most decent terminals can work that way, such as xterm, aterm and rxvt. If your <A-k> mappings don't work it might be that the terminal is prefixing the character with an ESC character. But you can just as well type ESC before a character, thus Vim doesn't know what happened (except for @@ -604,8 +604,9 @@ checking the delay between characters, which is not reliable). As of this writing, some mainstream terminals like gnome-terminal and konsole use the ESC prefix. There doesn't appear a way to have them use the 8th bit -instead. Xterm, aterm and rxvt should work well by default, unless you tweak -resources like "metaSendsEscape", "eightBitInput" and "eightBitOutput". +instead. Xterm should work well by default. Aterm and rxvt should work well +when started with the "--meta8" argument. You can also tweak resources like +"metaSendsEscape", "eightBitInput" and "eightBitOutput". On the Linux console, this behavior can be toggled with the "setmetamode" command. Bear in mind that not using an ESC prefix could get you in trouble |