Bug#368993: vim: Vim 7.0 weird handle of accented letters

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Fri May 26 16:28:52 UTC 2006


severity 368993 normal
thanks

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 04:58:02PM +0100, João Batista wrote:
> Vi/Vim/Gvim is now handling accented characters in Portuguese locale
> (pt_PT, charsets: ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15). Examples:
> 
> 1) typing tildekey+a to obtain a "~a" (tilde atop the 'a') goes to the new 
>    line.
> 2) typing acute+o to obtain a "'o" in replace mode (shift+R) exits the
>    replace mode instead of replacing the character under the cursor.
>    However, replacing a single character (r), instead of entering the
>    Replace mode, works as expected.

Could you give more details about 1) and 2)? Vim doesn't automatically
translate ~+a or '+o to other characters.  You can enter those use
ctrl-k ~ a or ctrl-k ' o.

> 3) In Vi, the cursor keys do not work and exit the Insert mode. However, 
>    the cursor keys work as expected in Vim and Gvim.

This is as intended.  vi invokes Vim in vi-compatible mode (:help
'compatible') which doesn't understand using the cursor keys.

James
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