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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