Hi,
I have not had to type control codes into programs since I wrote RS232 code back when the 286 was king. PASTE is used a million times more often than inserting control codes and yet the ^V still has this prehistoric assignment in the brand new Ubuntu release.

I NEED ^A, ^X, ^C and ^V to do select cut, copy and paste.

I also need a shift+arrow select. It's assigned to word forward or backward for which I already have B and W. Why would you want a 2 key combination when you already have a single key solution?

I have no syntax highlighting for Perl. It's nice to have.

I have no autoindent.

I have no highlighting of search hits.

I have exactly the same ~/.vimrc file.

I have heard legends of a "windows mode" but can't find out how to get there. I have tried Cream, but it is dumbed down almost as much as wordpad and is unusable.

I am trying to escape from the evil software empire and use Linux exclusively, but a handful of my favorite tools are not working and this is one of them [photoshop, dragon naturally speaking, unreal tournament, dupless, flash, most dvd movies, file associations, suspend/hybernate, sane network setup, ...].

Thank you,

BrianP

Unreal Tournament Linux - http://www.lokigames.com/products/ut/

It sounds as if you using a program which is adpted to tastes other than yours. I'm not at all clear why you are doing this. Is it inertia or is there something else about this program which ensures that you are staying 'loyal' to it?

Personally, I like kate (which if your Ubuntu is really Ubuntu, you probably don't have installed by default), but you'll probably find different reasons to dislike that. I can only suggest that you try the myriad of choices out there.

As what? And I am not sure what relevance this has.

For photoshop, try Gimp/Gimpshop, Krita.

File associations?? Suspend/hibernate?? Both potentially set up issues (but not exactly sure how Gnome does things), but you would have to say more, and I'm not sure if I'm going off topic in even getting to these questions.

Hi,
>> Is it inertia or is there something else about this program which ensures that you are staying 'loyal' to it?

Vi is one program which runs on almost every system. I do have many years of experience using it and I like it.

The Vim package provided by ubuntu uses the defunct, 30 year old standard using ^V for insert control code rather than for paste which has been the de facto standard for decades.

I was hoping that somebody had a .vimrc file with the modern key assignments. Surely, somebody has already fixed this. Is there really a "windows mode"?

Thanks,
BrianP

Ctrl-C was break 30 years ago and still is today..

if you want the windows key combos for cut and paste you are using the wrong command to startup the graphical editor, you want evim not gvim

http://linux.die.net/man/1/evim
Those wacky man page authors.. don't forget your handkerchief

Hi,
>> Ctrl-C was break 30 years ago and still is today..
What would you be "break"ing in an editor? Stopping a running program applies to shells, but not to editors as far as I can imagine.

Control-C, rather than stopping some program, appears to do the same as ESC. What a waste of a perfectly good key combo.

Control+right/left arrows does the same thing as as B&W. "Move the cursor while selecting" is a billion times more useful. With these archaic key assignments, you have to use the mouse to do that. Extremely inefficient.

I have used gvim in easy mode. It is about as useful as wordpad, the most braindead editor next to Edlin (dating myself).

To my shock and great surprise, the latest windoz 7.2 gvim.exe runs under WINE [almost normally]. But, you can't use nautilus directly (double-click) with it (AFAIK). They put an icon on the desktop and you can drop a nautilus file on it. But it F@(*@#%()@##)s up the permissions. What an annoyance! I have to chmod my Perl scripts every time I save the file before I can run it.

I have despised microsoft for decades for miserable engineering, poor quality and lack of usability. They have some competition now for top billing on my sh1t list!

BrianP