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1 *gui_w32.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2007 Aug 30 |
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| 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar | |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 Vim's Win32 Graphical User Interface *gui-w32* *win32-gui* | |
| 8 | |
| 9 1. Starting the GUI |gui-w32-start| | |
| 10 2. Vim as default editor |vim-default-editor| | |
| 11 3. Using the clipboard |gui-clipboard| | |
| 12 4. Shell Commands |gui-shell-win32| | |
| 13 5. Special colors |win32-colors| | |
| 14 6. Windows dialogs & browsers |gui-w32-dialogs| | |
| 15 7. Command line arguments |gui-w32-cmdargs| | |
| 16 8. Various |gui-w32-various| | |
| 17 | |
| 18 Other relevant documentation: | |
| 19 |gui.txt| For generic items of the GUI. | |
| 20 |os_win32.txt| For Win32 specific items. | |
| 21 | |
| 22 {Vi does not have a Windows GUI} | |
| 23 | |
| 24 ============================================================================== | |
| 25 1. Starting the GUI *gui-w32-start* | |
| 26 | |
| 27 The Win32 GUI version of Vim will always start the GUI, no matter how you | |
| 28 start it or what it's called. | |
| 29 | |
| 30 The GUI will always run in the Windows subsystem. Mostly shells automatically | |
| 31 return with a command prompt after starting gvim. If not, you should use the | |
| 32 "start" command: > | |
| 33 start gvim [options] file .. | |
| 34 | |
| 35 Note: All fonts (bold, italic) must be of the same size!!! If you don't do | |
| 36 this, text will disappear or mess up the display. Vim does not check the font | |
| 37 sizes. It's the size in screen pixels that must be the same. Note that some | |
| 38 fonts that have the same point size don't have the same pixel size! | |
| 39 Additionally, the positioning of the fonts must be the same (ascent and | |
| 40 descent). | |
| 41 | |
| 42 The Win32 GUI has an extra menu item: "Edit/Select Font". It brings up the | |
| 43 standard Windows font selector. | |
| 44 | |
| 45 Setting the menu height doesn't work for the Win32 GUI. | |
| 46 | |
| 47 *gui-win32-maximized* | |
| 48 If you want Vim to start with a maximized window, add this command to your | |
| 49 vimrc or gvimrc file: > | |
| 50 au GUIEnter * simalt ~x | |
| 51 < | |
| 52 *gui-w32s* | |
| 53 There is a specific version of gvim.exe that runs under the Win32s subsystem | |
| 54 of Windows 3.1 or 3.11. See |win32s|. | |
| 55 | |
| 1376 | 56 |
| 57 Using Vim as a plugin *gui-w32-windowid* | |
| 58 | |
| 59 When gvim starts up normally, it creates its own top level window. If you | |
| 60 pass Vim the command-line option |--windowid| with a decimal or hexadecimal | |
| 61 value, Vim will create a window that is a child of the window with the given | |
| 62 ID. This enables Vim to act as a plugin in another application. This really | |
| 63 is a programmer's interface, and is of no use without a supporting application | |
| 64 to spawn Vim correctly. | |
| 65 | |
| 7 | 66 ============================================================================== |
| 67 2. Vim as default editor *vim-default-editor* | |
| 68 | |
| 69 To set Vim as the default editor for a file type: | |
| 70 1. Start a Windows Explorer | |
| 236 | 71 2. Choose View/Options -> File Types |
| 7 | 72 3. Select the path to gvim for every file type that you want to use it for. |
| 73 (you can also use three spaces in the file type field, for files without an | |
| 74 extension). | |
| 75 In the "open" action, use: > | |
| 76 gvim "%1" | |
| 77 < The quotes are required for using file names with embedded spaces. | |
| 78 You can also use this: > | |
| 79 gvim "%L" | |
| 80 < This should avoid short (8.3 character) file names in some situations. But | |
| 81 I'm not sure if this works everywhere. | |
| 82 | |
| 83 When you open a file in Vim by double clicking it, Vim changes to that | |
| 84 file's directory. | |
| 85 | |
| 86 If you want Vim to start full-screen, use this for the Open action: > | |
| 87 gvim -c "simalt ~x" "%1" | |
| 88 | |
| 89 Another method, which also works when you put Vim in another directory (e.g., | |
| 90 when you have got a new version): | |
| 91 1. select a file you want to use Vim with | |
| 92 2. <Shift-F10> | |
| 93 3. select "Open With..." menu entry | |
| 94 4. click "Other..." | |
| 95 5. browse to the (new) location of Vim and click "Open" | |
| 96 6. make "Always Use this program..." checked | |
| 97 7. <OK> | |
| 98 | |
| 99 *send-to-menu* *sendto* | |
| 100 You can also install Vim in the "Send To" menu: | |
| 101 1. Start a Windows Explorer | |
| 102 2. Navigate to your sendto directory: | |
| 103 Windows 95: %windir%\sendto (e.g. "c:\windows\sendto") | |
| 104 Windows NT: %windir%\profiles\%user%\sendto (e.g. | |
| 105 "c:\winnt\profiles\mattha\sendto"). | |
| 106 3. Right-click in the file pane and select New->Shortcut | |
| 107 4. Follow the shortcut wizard, using the full path to VIM/GVIM. | |
| 108 | |
| 109 When you 'send a file to Vim', Vim changes to that file's directory. Note, | |
| 110 however, that any long directory names will appear in their short (MS-DOS) | |
| 111 form. This is a limitation of the Windows "Send To" mechanism. | |
| 112 | |
| 113 *notepad* | |
| 114 You could replace notepad.exe with gvim.exe, but that has a few side effects. | |
| 115 Some programs rely on notepad arguments, which are not recognized by Vim. For | |
| 116 example "notepad -p" is used by some applications to print a file. It's | |
| 117 better to leave notepad where it is and use another way to start Vim. | |
| 118 | |
| 119 *win32-popup-menu* | |
| 120 A more drastic approach is to install an "Edit with Vim" entry in the popup | |
| 121 menu for the right mouse button. With this you can edit any file with Vim. | |
| 122 | |
| 123 This can co-exist with the file associations mentioned above. The difference | |
| 124 is that the file associations will make starting Vim the default action. With | |
| 125 the "Edit with Vim" menu entry you can keep the existing file association for | |
| 126 double clicking on the file, and edit the file with Vim when you want. For | |
| 127 example, you can associate "*.mak" with your make program. You can execute | |
| 128 the makefile by double clicking it and use the "Edit with Vim" entry to edit | |
| 129 the makefile. | |
| 130 | |
| 131 You can select any files and right-click to see a menu option called "Edit | |
| 1668 | 132 with gvim". Choosing this menu option will invoke gvim with the file you have |
| 7 | 133 selected. If you select multiple files, you will find two gvim-related menu |
| 134 options: | |
| 135 "Edit with multiple gvims" -- one gvim for each file in the selection | |
| 136 "Edit with single gvim" -- one gvim for all the files in the selection | |
| 137 And if there already is a gvim running: | |
| 138 "Edit with existing gvim" -- edit the file with the running gvim | |
| 139 | |
| 140 *install-registry* | |
| 141 You can add the "Edit with Vim" menu entry in an easy way by using the | |
| 142 "install.exe" program. It will add several registry entries for you. | |
| 143 | |
| 144 You can also do this by hand. This is complicated! Use the install.exe if | |
| 145 you can. | |
| 146 | |
| 147 1. Start the registry editor with "regedit". | |
| 148 2. Add these keys: | |
| 149 key value name value ~ | |
| 150 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99} | |
| 151 {default} Vim Shell Extension | |
| 152 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99}\InProcServer32 | |
| 153 {default} {path}\gvimext.dll | |
| 154 ThreadingModel Apartment | |
| 155 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\gvim | |
| 156 {default} {51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99} | |
| 157 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved | |
| 158 {51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99} | |
| 159 Vim Shell Extension | |
| 160 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Vim\Gvim | |
| 161 path {path}\gvim.exe | |
| 162 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\vim 5.6 | |
| 163 DisplayName Vim 5.6: Edit with Vim popup menu entry | |
| 164 UninstallString {path}\uninstal.exe | |
| 165 | |
| 166 Replace {path} with the path that leads to the executable. | |
| 167 Don't type {default}, this is the value for the key itself. | |
| 168 | |
| 169 To remove "Edit with Vim" from the popup menu, just remove the registry | |
| 170 entries mentioned above. The "uninstal.exe" program can do this for you. You | |
| 171 can also use the entry in the Windows standard "Add/Remove Programs" list. | |
| 172 | |
| 173 If you notice that this entry overrules other file type associations, set | |
| 174 those associations again by hand (using Windows Explorer, see above). This | |
| 175 only seems to happen on some Windows NT versions (Windows bug?). Procedure: | |
| 176 1. Find the name of the file type. This can be done by starting the registry | |
| 177 editor, and searching for the extension in \\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT | |
| 178 2. In a Windows Explorer, use View/Options/File Types. Search for the file | |
| 179 type in the list and click "Edit". In the actions list, you can select on | |
| 180 to be used as the default (normally the "open" action) and click on the | |
| 181 "Set Default" button. | |
| 182 | |
| 183 | |
| 184 Vim in the "Open With..." context menu *win32-open-with-menu* | |
| 185 | |
| 186 If you use the Vim install program you have the choice to add Vim to the "Open | |
| 187 With..." menu. This means you can use Vim to edit many files. Not every file | |
| 188 (for unclear reasons...), thus the "Edit with Vim" menu entry is still useful. | |
| 189 | |
| 190 One reason to add this is to be able to edit HTML files directly from Internet | |
| 191 Explorer. To enable this use the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options..." entry. | |
| 192 In the dialog select the "Programs" tab and select Vim in the "HTML editor" | |
| 193 choice. If it's not there than installing didn't work properly. | |
| 194 | |
| 195 Doing this manually can be done with this script: | |
| 196 | |
| 197 ---------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 198 REGEDIT4 | |
| 199 | |
| 200 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe] | |
| 201 | |
| 202 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe\shell] | |
| 203 | |
| 204 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe\shell\edit] | |
| 205 | |
| 206 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe\shell\edit\command] | |
| 207 @="c:\\vim\\vim62\\gvim.exe \"%1\"" | |
| 208 | |
| 209 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList\gvim.exe] | |
| 210 | |
| 211 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList\gvim.exe] | |
| 212 | |
| 213 ---------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 214 | |
| 215 Change the "c:\\vim\\vim62" bit to where gvim.exe is actually located. | |
| 216 | |
| 217 To uninstall this run the Vim uninstall program or manually delete the | |
| 218 registry entries with "regedit". | |
| 219 | |
| 220 ============================================================================== | |
| 221 3. Using the clipboard *gui-clipboard* | |
| 222 | |
| 223 Windows has a clipboard, where you can copy text to, and paste text from. Vim | |
| 224 supports this in several ways. For other systems see |gui-selections|. | |
| 225 | |
| 226 The "* register reflects the contents of the clipboard. |quotestar| | |
| 227 | |
| 228 When the "unnamed" string is included in the 'clipboard' option, the unnamed | |
| 229 register is the same. Thus you can yank to and paste from the clipboard | |
| 230 without prepending "* to commands. | |
| 231 | |
| 232 The 'a' flag in 'guioptions' is not included by default. This means that text | |
| 233 is only put on the clipboard when an operation is performed on it. Just | |
| 234 Visually selecting text doesn't put it on the clipboard. When the 'a' flag is | |
| 235 included, the text is copied to the clipboard even when it is not operated | |
| 236 upon. | |
| 237 | |
| 238 *mswin.vim* | |
| 239 To use the standard MS-Windows way of CTRL-X, CTRL-C and CTRL-V, use the | |
| 240 $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim script. You could add this line to your _vimrc file: > | |
| 241 source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim | |
| 242 | |
| 243 Since CTRL-C is used to copy the text to the clipboard, it can't be used to | |
| 244 cancel an operation. Use CTRL-Break for that. | |
| 245 | |
| 1121 | 246 CTRL-Z is used for undo. This means you can't suspend Vim with this key, use |
| 247 |:suspend| instead (if it's supported at all). | |
| 81 | 248 |
| 167 | 249 *CTRL-V-alternative* *CTRL-Q* |
| 7 | 250 Since CTRL-V is used to paste, you can't use it to start a blockwise Visual |
| 251 selection. You can use CTRL-Q instead. You can also use CTRL-Q in Insert | |
| 252 mode and Command-line mode to get the old meaning of CTRL-V. But CTRL-Q | |
| 253 doesn't work for terminals when it's used for control flow. | |
| 254 | |
| 255 NOTE: The clipboard support still has a number of bugs. See |todo|. | |
| 256 | |
| 257 ============================================================================== | |
| 258 4. Shell Commands *gui-shell-win32* | |
| 259 | |
| 260 Vim uses another window for external commands, to make it possible to run any | |
| 261 command. The external command gets its own environment for running, just like | |
| 262 it was started from a DOS prompt. | |
| 263 | |
| 264 *win32-vimrun* | |
| 265 Executing an external command is done indirectly by the "vimrun" command. The | |
| 266 "vimrun.exe" must be in the path for this to work. Or it must be in the same | |
| 267 directory as the Vim executable. If "vimrun" cannot be found, the command is | |
| 268 executed directly, but then the DOS window closes immediately after the | |
| 269 external command has finished. | |
| 270 WARNING: If you close this window with the "X" button, and confirm the | |
| 271 question if you really want to kill the application, Vim may be killed too! | |
| 272 (This does not apply to commands run asynchronously with ":!start".) | |
| 273 | |
| 274 In Windows 95, the window in which the commands are executed is always 25x80 | |
| 275 characters, to be as DOS compatible as possible (this matters!). The default | |
| 236 | 276 system font is used. On NT, the window will be the default you have set up for |
| 277 "Console" in Control Panel. On Win32s, the properties of the DOS box are | |
| 7 | 278 determined by _default.pif in the windows directory. |
| 279 | |
| 280 *msdos-mode* | |
| 281 If you get a dialog that says "This program is set to run in MS-DOS mode..." | |
| 282 when you run an external program, you can solve this by changing the | |
| 283 properties of the associated shortcut: | |
| 284 - Use a Windows Explorer to find the command.com that is used. It can be | |
| 285 c:\command.com, c:\dos\command.com, c:\windows\command.com, etc. | |
| 286 - With the right mouse button, select properties of this command.com. | |
| 287 - In the Program tab select "Advanced". | |
| 288 - Unselect "MS-DOS mode". | |
| 289 - Click "OK" twice. | |
| 290 | |
| 291 *win32-!start* | |
| 292 Normally, Vim waits for a command to complete before continuing (this makes | |
| 293 sense for most shell commands which produce output for Vim to use). If you | |
| 294 want Vim to start a program and return immediately, you can use the following | |
| 295 syntax on W95 & NT: > | |
| 296 :!start {command} | |
| 236 | 297 On Win32s, you will have to go to another window instead. Don't forget that |
| 7 | 298 you must tell Windows 3.1x to keep executing a DOS command in the background |
| 299 while you switch back to Vim. | |
| 300 | |
| 301 ============================================================================== | |
| 302 5. Special colors *win32-colors* | |
| 303 | |
| 304 On Win32, the normal DOS colors can be used. See |dos-colors|. | |
| 305 | |
| 306 Additionally the system configured colors can also be used. These are known | |
| 307 by the names Sys_XXX, where XXX is the appropriate system color name, from the | |
| 308 following list (see the Win32 documentation for full descriptions). Case is | |
| 236 | 309 ignored. Note: On Win32s not all of these colors are supported. |
| 7 | 310 |
| 311 Sys_3DDKShadow Sys_3DFace Sys_BTNFace | |
| 312 Sys_3DHilight Sys_3DHighlight Sys_BTNHilight | |
| 313 Sys_BTNHighlight Sys_3DLight Sys_3DShadow | |
| 314 Sys_BTNShadow Sys_ActiveBorder Sys_ActiveCaption | |
| 315 Sys_AppWorkspace Sys_Background Sys_Desktop | |
| 316 Sys_BTNText Sys_CaptionText Sys_GrayText | |
| 317 Sys_Highlight Sys_HighlightText Sys_InactiveBorder | |
| 318 Sys_InactiveCaption Sys_InactiveCaptionText Sys_InfoBK | |
| 319 Sys_InfoText Sys_Menu Sys_MenuText | |
| 320 Sys_ScrollBar Sys_Window Sys_WindowFrame | |
| 321 Sys_WindowText | |
| 322 | |
| 323 Probably the most useful values are | |
| 324 Sys_Window Normal window background | |
| 325 Sys_WindowText Normal window text | |
| 326 Sys_Highlight Highlighted background | |
| 327 Sys_HighlightText Highlighted text | |
| 328 | |
| 329 These extra colors are also available: | |
| 330 Gray, Grey, LightYellow, SeaGreen, Orange, Purple, SlateBlue, Violet, | |
| 331 | |
| 332 *rgb.txt* | |
| 333 Additionally, colors defined by a "rgb.txt" file can be used. This file is | |
| 334 well known from X11. A few lines from it: > | |
| 335 | |
| 336 255 218 185 peach puff | |
| 337 205 133 63 peru | |
| 338 255 181 197 pink | |
| 339 | |
| 340 This shows the layout of the file: First the R, G and B value as a decimal | |
| 341 number, followed by the name of the color. The four fields are separated by | |
| 342 spaces. | |
| 343 | |
| 344 You can get an rgb.txt file from any X11 distribution. It is located in a | |
| 345 directory like "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/". For Vim it must be located in the | |
| 346 $VIMRUNTIME directory. Thus the file can be found with "$VIMRUNTIME/rgb.txt". | |
| 347 | |
| 348 ============================================================================== | |
| 349 *gui-w32-dialogs* *dialog* | |
| 350 6. Windows dialogs & browsers | |
| 351 | |
| 352 The Win32 GUI can use familiar Windows components for some operations, as well | |
| 353 as the traditional interface shared with the console version. | |
| 354 | |
| 355 | |
| 356 6.1 Dialogs | |
| 357 | |
| 358 The dialogs displayed by the "confirm" family (i.e. the 'confirm' option, | |
| 359 |:confirm| command and |confirm()| function) are GUI-based rather than the | |
| 360 console-based ones used by other versions. The 'c' flag in 'guioptions' | |
| 361 changes this. | |
| 362 | |
| 363 | |
| 364 6.2 File Browsers | |
| 365 | |
| 366 When prepending ":browse" before file editing commands, a file requester is | |
| 367 used to allow you to select an existing file. See |:browse|. | |
| 368 | |
| 369 | |
| 370 6.3 Tearoff Menus | |
| 371 | |
| 372 The Win32 GUI emulates Motif's tear-off menus. At the top of each menu you | |
| 373 will see a small graphic "rip here" sign. Selecting it will cause a floating | |
| 374 window to be created with the same menu entries on it. The floating menu can | |
| 375 then be accessed just as if it was the original (including sub-menus), but | |
| 376 without having to go to the menu bar each time. | |
| 377 This is most useful if you find yourself using a command buried in a sub-menu | |
| 378 over and over again. | |
| 379 The tearoff menus can be positioned where you like, and always stay just above | |
| 236 | 380 the Main Vim window. You can get rid of them by closing them as usual; they |
| 7 | 381 also of course close when you exit Vim. |
| 382 | |
| 383 *:tearoff* *:te* | |
| 384 :te[aroff] {name} Tear-off the menu {name}. The menu named must have at | |
| 385 least one subentry, but need not appear on the | |
| 386 menu-bar (see |win32-hidden-menus|). | |
| 387 | |
| 388 Example: > | |
| 389 :tearoff File | |
| 390 will make the "File" menu (if there is one) appear as a tearoff menu. > | |
| 391 | |
| 392 :amenu ]Toolbar.Make :make<CR> | |
| 393 :tearoff ]Toolbar | |
| 394 This creates a floating menu that doesn't exist on the main menu-bar. | |
| 395 | |
| 396 Note that a menu that starts with ']' will not be displayed. | |
| 397 | |
| 398 ============================================================================== | |
| 399 7. Command line arguments *gui-w32-cmdargs* | |
| 400 | |
| 401 Analysis of a command line into parameters is not standardised in MS Windows. | |
| 402 Gvim has to provide logic to analyse a command line. This logic is likely to | |
| 403 be different from the default logic provided by a compilation system used to | |
| 404 build vim. The differences relate to unusual double quote (") usage. | |
| 405 The arguments "C:\My Music\freude.txt" and "+/Sch\"iller" are handled in the | |
| 406 same way. The argument "+/Sch""iller" may be handled different by gvim and | |
| 407 vim, depending what it was compiled with. | |
| 408 | |
| 409 The rules are: | |
| 410 a) A parameter is a sequence of graphic characters. | |
| 411 b) Parameters are separated by white space. | |
| 412 c) A parameter can be enclosed in double quotes to include white space. | |
| 413 d) A sequence of zero or more backslashes (\) and a double quote (") | |
| 236 | 414 is special. The effective number of backslashes is halved, rounded |
| 7 | 415 down. An even number of backslashes reverses the acceptability of |
| 416 spaces and tabs, an odd number of backslashes produces a literal | |
| 417 double quote. | |
| 418 | |
| 419 So: | |
| 420 " is a special double quote | |
| 421 \" is a literal double quote | |
| 422 \\" is a literal backslash and a special double quote | |
| 423 \\\" is a literal backslash and a literal double quote | |
| 424 \\\\" is 2 literal backslashes and a special double quote | |
| 425 \\\\\" is 2 literal backslashes and a literal double quote | |
| 426 etc. | |
| 427 | |
| 428 Example: > | |
| 429 gvim "C:\My Music\freude" +"set ignorecase" +/"\"foo\\" +\"bar\\\" | |
| 430 | |
| 431 opens "C:\My Music\freude" and executes the line mode commands: > | |
| 432 set ignorecase; /"foo\ and /bar\" | |
| 433 | |
| 434 ============================================================================== | |
| 435 8. Various *gui-w32-various* | |
| 436 | |
| 437 *gui-w32-printing* | |
| 438 The "File/Print" menu prints the text with syntax highlighting, see | |
| 439 |:hardcopy|. If you just want to print the raw text and have a default | |
| 440 printer installed this should also work: > | |
| 441 :w >>prn | |
| 442 | |
| 236 | 443 Vim supports a number of standard MS Windows features. Some of these are |
| 7 | 444 detailed elsewhere: see |'mouse'|, |win32-hidden-menus|. |
| 445 | |
| 446 *drag-n-drop-win32* | |
| 447 You can drag and drop one or more files into the Vim window, where they will | |
| 448 be opened as normal. See |drag-n-drop|. | |
| 449 | |
| 450 *:simalt* *:si* | |
| 451 :sim[alt] {key} simulate pressing {key} while holding Alt pressed. | |
| 452 {not in Vi} {only for Win32 versions} | |
| 453 | |
| 454 Normally, Vim takes control of all Alt-<Key> combinations, to increase the | |
| 236 | 455 number of possible mappings. This clashes with the standard use of Alt as the |
| 7 | 456 key for accessing menus. |
| 457 The quick way of getting standard behavior is to set the 'winaltkeys' option | |
| 458 to "yes". This however prevents you from mapping Alt keys at all. | |
| 459 Another way is to set 'winaltkeys' to "menu". Menu shortcut keys are then | |
| 460 handled by windows, other ALT keys can be mapped. This doesn't allow a | |
| 461 dependency on the current state though. | |
| 462 To get round this, the :simalt command allows Vim (when 'winaltkeys' is not | |
| 236 | 463 "yes") to fake a Windows-style Alt keypress. You can use this to map Alt key |
| 7 | 464 combinations (or anything else for that matter) to produce standard Windows |
| 236 | 465 actions. Here are some examples: > |
| 7 | 466 |
| 467 :map <M-f> :simalt f<CR> | |
| 468 This makes Alt-F pop down the 'File' menu (with the stock Menu.vim) by | |
| 469 simulating the keystrokes Alt, F. > | |
| 470 :map <M-Space> :simalt ~<CR> | |
| 236 | 471 This maps Alt-Space to pop down the system menu for the Vim window. Note that |
| 7 | 472 ~ is used by simalt to represent the <Space> character. > |
| 473 :map <C-n> :simalt ~n<CR> | |
| 236 | 474 Maps Control-N to produce the keys Alt-Space followed by N. This minimizes the |
| 7 | 475 Vim window via the system menu. |
| 476 | |
| 1121 | 477 Note that the key changes depending on the language you are using. |
| 478 | |
| 7 | 479 *intellimouse-wheel-problems* |
| 480 When using the Intellimouse mouse wheel causes Vim to stop accepting input, go | |
| 481 to: | |
| 482 ControlPanel - Mouse - Wheel - UniversalScrolling - Exceptions | |
| 483 | |
| 484 And add gvim to the list of applications. This problem only appears to happen | |
| 485 with the Intellimouse driver 2.2 and when "Universal Scrolling" is turned on. | |
| 486 | |
| 487 vim:tw=78:sw=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: |