Thanks for the tips Tony - yes, I'm kind of used to the Ctrl-Q surrogate, and somehow the others don't seem to bother me - they kind of do what I want when I want them to at present - perhaps due to modes.
Anyway - the keymodel fix is working great, along with your other ideas - so thanks again for your help, John On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:49:47 +0200, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09/04/09 09:36, John Orr wrote: >> >> Thanks Tony and Matt for your thoughts. >> >> I agree that using mswin.vim is kind of flirting with danger - the main >> reason I used it was for the ctrl-x/c/v mappings which can be a simple >> way >> to access the clipboard - but I created my own version yesterday, to >> remove some fat I didn't want. > [...] > > The problem with Ctrl-X/C/V to access the clipboard in Vim is that they > conflict with well-established Vim key bindings -- so much so that > Ctrl-Q had to be introduced as a kind of "surrogate Ctrl-V". > > Ctrl-X in Insert mode is a prefix to many kinds of useful completions, > and Ctrl-C is of course "Stop, I goofed". > > The Clipboard in Vim is register + (usable in Normal mode as "+y "+d "+p > "+P , in Ex mode as :[range]y+ :[range]d+ :[range]put+ and as @+ in a > :let or an expression; however as long as you aren't famliar with that > way of accessing it, you can use Edit=>Cut, Edit=>Paste and Edit=>Copy > just like in Windows (and it is even possible to enable menus in Console > mode in Vim -- I think I've mentioned how a week or two ago in a post > about something else). > > > Best regards, > Tony. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
