The 'macmeta' option has not effect when using a Greek layout #300

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1. chdiza commented on Jul 5, 2016

   

   chdiza

   on Jul 5, 2016

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   It is both a known and documented limitation of MacVim that mappings involving "meta" are flaky and unreliable. (See :help macmeta). You can try :set macmeta, but over the last eight years I've found that it hardly improves the situation at all.

   My guess is that it's probably got nothing to do with the Greek layout, and if setting macmeta doesn't help, you're just running into the known limitations of MacVim.
2. sindex commented on Jul 6, 2016

   

   sindex

   on Jul 6, 2016

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   Modifying the conditional at line 161 of the "MMTextViewHelper.m" file to account for a greater character range works but Meta+Greek chars keybindings now produce the corresponding Greek character. The same thing probably happens with a Cyrillic layout.
3. splhack commented on Aug 11, 2016

   

   splhack

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   @sindex you mean this?

   diff --git a/src/MacVim/MMTextViewHelper.m b/src/MacVim/MMTextViewHelper.m
   index d6dedfb..d93fecc 100644
   --- a/src/MacVim/MMTextViewHelper.m
   +++ b/src/MacVim/MMTextViewHelper.m
   @@ -159,8 +159,7 @@ - (void)keyDown:(NSEvent *)event
        // Note that this implies that 'mmta' (if enabled) breaks input methods
        // when the Alt key is held.
        if ((flags & NSAlternateKeyMask) && [mmta boolValue] && [unmod length] == 1
   -            && [unmod characterAtIndex:0] > 0x20
   -            && [unmod characterAtIndex:0] < 0x7f) {
   +            && [unmod characterAtIndex:0] > 0x20) {
            ASLogDebug(@"MACMETA key, don't interpret it");
            string = unmod;
        } else if (imState && (flags & NSControlKeyMask)
   
4. sindex commented on Aug 12, 2016

   

   sindex

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   @splhack yes
5. splhack

   added a commit that references this issue on Sep 13, 2016

   Fix macmeta for Greek layout

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   This issue will close once commit 193dd55 is merged into the 'master' branch.

   193dd55
6. splhack

   closed this as completedin #348on Sep 14, 2016