Re: [Fwd: Ctrl-^]

Hi Guys,

Ctrl-6 NEVER worked on a mac :-(

I'm not sure why, but from what I was told "waaay back then" was that  
the keyboard drivers simply don't understand that combination.
Things may be different in cocoa, but at least in OS-8 and OS-9 there  
was no known way.

Strangely though, the following map provides a "close alternative".

map <S-C-6> <ESC>:w!<CR>:e#<CR>

Good luck though - maybe things have changed enough on the mac  
platform to allow ctrl-6 again.

Cheers,

Steve

On 21.03.2007, at 07:38, George V. Reilly wrote:

> Nicolas Weber wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Ctrl-^ and Ctrl-6 don't switch to the alternate buffer, as they  
> > > do in the Windows and Linux binaries.
> >
> > can you check if this worked prior to 7.0.138 (I guess it didn't,  
> > but it'd be nice to know)? I'll take a look.
>
> Where would I find such binaries? I don't see older Tiger binaries  
> except for Vim 6.4 on the website.
>
> Many years ago, when I was the maintainer of the Win32 ports of  
> Vim, I made Vim accept Ctrl-6 as a synonym for Ctrl-^ (Ctrl+Shift+6  
> on US keyboards). This behavior must have been propagated into the  
> gtk version of gvim at some point. Now it's deep in my muscle  
> memory and I get frustrated at having to type ":b #" or ":e #"  
> instead.
>
> --
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> The biggest mistake is not learning from all your other mistakes.

Steve