Timeline for Shift + Backspace won't work on Vim for Windows
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 9:22 | comment | added | user32882 |
When I press Shift+Backspace in my keyboard I get Îy. I tried adding imap Îy <BS> in my vimrc file but it doesn't help...
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| Jan 18, 2022 at 20:03 | comment | added | KamRa | Great to hear it worked. This was a frustrating problem for me, too. Terminals in Windows all vary slightly in their implementations, and interpretation of keyboard-input is unfortunately one of those differences. In my experience, CMD.exe, powershell, GitBash terminal, vim (windows) terminal, and Gvim all give different behaviour for certain keys. Linux and MacOS have a native BASH terminal, so there doesn't need to be different emulations made at different times by different people for different purposes. One shell, one standard (one of the reasons developers tend to prefer unix systems). | |
| Jan 16, 2022 at 22:06 | comment | added | Nik Tedig | Thx a lot for this. Everything works great now. I wonder why Windows chooses to send these weird combinations to the terminal instead of just the normal backspace keycodes. The fact that terminal programs can differentiate between Shift + BS and Ctrl + BS and just BS is strange as well, is the same thing possible on Linux for example? If so, how does Linux handle that? | |
| Jan 16, 2022 at 22:04 | vote | accept | Nik Tedig | ||
| Jan 5, 2022 at 8:41 | history | answered | KamRa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |