From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6793 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2005 07:40:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6783 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2005 07:39:57 -0000 Received: from ashi.footprints.net (HELO ashi.FootPrints.net) (204.239.179.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:39:57 +0000 Received: from kaz by ashi.FootPrints.net with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Du3kg-0000tN-Tx; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 00:39:54 -0700 Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:40:00 -0000 From: Kaz Kylheku To: Myles cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Trouble with key in vim (and more) In-Reply-To: <2ceee817050717003334f11324@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00788.txt.bz2 On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Myles wrote: > Hi forum, > > When trying to use to complete on help items, or file loading, > or etc, I get a ^I (ctrl-I) character instead. For example: > > :h h > > I see > > :h h^I^I > > Also, the arrow keys don't work like they're supposed to. Like if I've > alreads performed some : commands and then I > > : > > I don't get recall like I should. This is the normal vim behavior. Unless you configure vim otherwise via ``:set nocompatible,'' it behaves in a vi compatibility mode. You stick this into your .vimrc file. Someone must have enabled this for you in the previous Vim installations, or else you did it so long ago that you forgot about it. -- Meta-CVS: the working replacement for CVS that has been stable since 2002. It versions the directory structure, symbolic links and execute permissions. It figures out renaming on import. Plus it babysits the kids and does light housekeeping! http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcvs -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/