Tip #645: Enabling Windows shortcuts (eg alt+space, F10 etc) for gvim window

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created:		January 28, 2004 4:44		complexity:		basic
author:		Girish Gajwani		as of Vim:		5.7

I was trying to figure out why Alt+space would not work, as i would have to use the mouse to maximize/restore/minimize my gvim window (on Win32) which was a pain and found that i needed to set winaltkeys=yes to make this work. Now I can use Alt+Space followed by 'x to maximize Alt+Space followed by 'n' to minimize Alt+Space followed by 'r' to restore! See help winaltkeys Also see this: vimtip #494

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[email protected], January 28, 2004 5:19

I use VIM on Win2K, ALT+Space works well on English Win2K platform, it seems this shortcut does not work on multi-byte language Win2K (e.g. Chinese Win2K). Is this a bug ?

slackorama@GOAWAYSPAMMERS_hotmail.com, January 28, 2004 18:28

I'm using vim 6.1 on WinXP and the Alt+Space works for me but not in the normal way. I have to press Alt, release it and then press the space bar to bring up the menu. In most other programs I can press and hold Alt and then hit the space bar.

[email protected], May 24, 2004 3:37

Hi, I always use alt-space - n to minimise windows, even though Ctrl-Z does it, but its always annoyed me that the system menu under alt-space hasn't worked unless you press Alt and release it and then press space. I set winaltkeys to yes but then found some of my mappings were broken so I set it to no and then used simalt to map the appropriate key sequences to activate the system menu and all the other menus, however, I found a bug/feature. The examples show that: map <M-f> :simalt f<CR> will display the File menu when winaltkeys is set to no. This works when you haven't got caps lock on. To get around this I need to have 2 mappings for one key to catch both key states. Does anyone know a way round this without having 2 mappings, one for each case? Is this a bug that would need to be fixed or is it something that I'm going to have to live with? Cheers, Lee




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