MacVim keyboard layout is driving me insane

[krischik@…]

Hello,

since vim-app won't compile with 10.6 I am forced to use MacVim. And it is driving me insane. The reason is that MacVim is changing the keyboard layout. But I am used to the Vim layout. I use it on several operating systems - nut just Mac OS X.

I have some of my own mapping. But even my own mapping disappear because they are set in .vimrc (so it's valid for Terminal and GUI use) and MacVim screws everything up in gvimrc.

Please, Please do us hardcore vim-ers a favour: Either fix vim-app of give us a "g:macvim-leave-my-setup-alone" or "$macvim-leave-my-setup-alone" option.

Thanks

Martin

PS: I do like the mvim script. That actually is cool.

[krischik@…]

Hi,

I now found the macvim_skip_cmd_opt_movement and macvim_hig_shift_movement options. I like to point out that having one option activating and the other deactivating hat me confused for a while.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Owner needs to be a complete email address.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Not sure what you are asking for. MacVim loads keybindings from my .vimrc on my machine. I do not have a separate .gvimrc.

If you want to set specific options in your .vimrc for MacVim only, you can use the following snippet:

if has("gui_macvim")
    let macvim_hig_shift_movement = 1
endif

[krischik@…]

MacVim loads keybindings from my .vimrc on my machine.

That's what I have as well. But MacVim's $VIM/gvimrc changes them which I don't want. Well I found the macvim_skip_cmd_opt_movement option now and it seems to work as expected - so all that is left is better documentation so we hard-core-vim-ers find macvim_skip_cmd_opt_movement quicker.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

It's documented in :help macvim-shortcuts and/or :help cmd-movement.

I don't think there is anything MacPorts can do about this, so please file an issue ​upstream with the developers of MacVim.