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Matt Boehm
Matt Boehm

Reputation: 1912

Double quotes in vim/ubuntu?

I apologize profusely for the incredibly newbish question I'm about to ask, but for some reason, my brain's locked up:

I'm trying to code in C on gvim on a virtual machine running Ubuntu, but my Hello World throws compiler errors which I suspect has to do with the quotes being different ascii(unicode?) codes than standard quotes. It doesn't recognize "Hello World" as a string and says "stray \250 in program" as well as "stray \302 in program" each twice.

To type a double quote, I have to hold down Shift and double-tap the quote key. This seems to be a global setting for all programs (terminal, open office, etc.)

Am I correct in assuming it's a problem with quotes, and if so, would any of you happen to know a solution to my problem?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4158

Answers (3)

helper12
helper12

Reputation: 1

I too had the same problem and the solution is just check what layout Ubuntu is using go into the settings and search keyboard and select region and language option and you will find the input source and just add English (US) one.

Upvotes: 0

RobS
RobS

Reputation: 3857

It sounds like you've got the wrong keyboard map set up. I got the same symptoms as you with a "UK (international with deadkeys)" keyboard map. Changed it to a standard UK one and it worked fine.

HTH

Rob

Upvotes: 11

Martin Beckett
Martin Beckett

Reputation: 96109

Isn't the double quote character (near the enter key) more appropriate?

Upvotes: 0

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