[Nottingham] Vim on OS X

ForkBombFluf fluf at freeshell.org
Thu Sep 13 13:15:09 BST 2007


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Joshua Lock wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Religious flaewars on OSs and editors aside I'm spending more time in
> Vim, but one thing is keeping me back when I'm running in OS X's
> Terminal.app on my Apple laptop - I can't work out how to insert a #
> character.
>
> In Cocoa apps its <alt>-3 but when I'm in insert mode in Vim this
> doesn't seem to work.
>
> I'm sure loads of people have had this problem but I can't find a
> search term that is unambiguous enough to find the results on Google.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best,
>
> - J
>

Hi Josh,

Try Shift-3 instead of Alt-3, this works for me.

Cheers,

-Stef



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