Fwd: Re: Keyboard left in a strange mode after ZZ
Ben Schmidt
cause of some bug. Maybe there's a Windows dev here who has some more
ideas, or could reproduce it and track it down? I'm afraid I'm pretty
useless from here.
Smiles,
Ben.
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Ben Schmidt <mail_ben...@yahoo.com.au
<mailto:mail_ben...@yahoo.com.au>> wrote:
On 27/05/11 1:02 AM, Richard Guse wrote:
I'm using Vim 7.3 7/20/2010 under Windows 7.
I usually start gvim from the command-line but sometimes from
Windows Explorer.
After I start, do my work then use "ZZ" to save/exit, it leaves
the keyboard in a strange state relating only to the window
which was used to start gvim:
before: abc123
after: ABC!@#
after (shift key): ABC!@#
after (caps lock): abc!@#
There seem to be two ways to fix it...
1. exit and restart the window
2. in a bad window, re-start vim then type any command...even
typing ":" and exiting the window with the mouse works. Just
starting it then closing the window doesn't fix it -
something must be typed.
This doesn't happen with vim.
This doesn't happen with gvim if exited with :wq or :x.
I haven't noticed this behavior with any other application.
I've noticed several tips and messages relating to mapping caps
lock to escape but I don't map default keys.
I'm hoping someone here has seen this before as its driving me
nuts. It is incredibly difficult to retrain myself to :wq or :x
rather than ZZ. I even tried mapping ZZ to :x and it still
happens.
Hmm. I guess it happens because Gvim does something keyboard-related
when it exits, but when you use ZZ, at that point the shift key is
depressed. To test the theory try doing
:noremap ZZ 2gsZZ
That will put in a 2 second delay before exiting, which should be
more than enough time for you to release the shift key. See if that
helps. If it does, check you can reproduce the bad behaviour by
continuting to hold the shift key until after the 2 second delay
passes and Vim exits.
That's it exactly!
I can now re-produce it not only by the above method but also by typing
:q!<enter> but not lift the shift key when pressing enter. Curiously,
some capital letter must be pressed as :x<enter> while shift is pressed
does not do it. Explains why maping ZZ to :x doesn't fix the problem.
I reduced it to 1 second ":normap ZZ gsZZ" which appears to be plenty.
The delay is slightly annoying but much less annoying than funky caps
lock. ":noremap ZZ :sleep 300<CR>ZZ" works even better. :)
Still can't re-produce it in any other application. It must be unique
to vim and my environment.
Thanks.
H Xu
Hello,
I could not reproduce it on my Windows Vista x86 with gvim 7.3.198.
Maybe it's only on Windows 7? I'll try it later on a Windows 7 machine.
Regards,
Hong Xu
2011/5/30
H Xu
I cannot reproduce it with gvim 7.3.206 on Windows 7 x64. Is there more
information?