Re: backtick metacharacter confused by scrolly wheel in vim

[Eric D. Hendrickson]

I use ctrl-\ as my escape character.  Almost nothing else uses that
and it's (usually) easy to type.

escape \

"Aaron Griffin" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 4/10/06, Ed Dench <address@hidden> wrote:
>> AFAIK, the trouble only happens within vim and with an up scroll.  If I
>> have a xterm scrollback buffer I am able to scroll up and down without a
>> problem.  If I use control-V in vim to indicate the character pressed, some
>> times I get a ^[[M` output.  Notice the last character is the backtick and
>> that I often get different output (e.g., ^[[M.  ).
>>
>> My working theory is that  screen receives a "button-4" press from a scroll
>> up as an escape sequence which includes "normal keys" including a backtick.
>> (Blame xdefaults? or X's general behavior?).
>
> No, terminal emulators of all kinds do not understand buttons (beyond
> the typical X workings - grabbing focus, selecting text, etc).  They
> only receive an escape code, which is well defined (the ^[[M`RC is
> defined in man console_codes and is there for X10 compatiblity).
>
> You have 2 options:
> 1) Don't use a single character - this is the problem with that
> approach.  I used to use \ as an escape character and would get all
> sorts of wonky behavior when pasting ("hello\nthere" would switch
> windows).
> 2) Force your terminal to remap the escape code.  Some may allow this.
>  It may require you to patch the source.
>
> There is no way around this.  Any change is going to be an insane
> amount of hassle.  I'd recommend switching escape keys.
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