[Nottingham] Vim on OS X

Booth Chris Chris.Booth at nottingham.ac.uk
Thu Sep 13 17:02:01 BST 2007


Hello Joshua,

I use Linux on my Mac and have to use 'Right-Alt 3' - specifically the
right Alt key. Maybe it's the same under OS X.

Regards,

Chris Booth.

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> Joshua Lock
> Sent: 13 September 2007 11:29
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Nottingham] Vim on OS X
> 
> 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
> 
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