Alt key shortcuts not working on gnome terminal with Vim

Question

I\'m running Vim on a gnome terminal. But the alt key mappings are not working.
For example (this is just an example):

:imap  
         


        

Answer 1

Try

Or, if typing alti inserts a character (like in my case, it inserts a carret: ˆ) just map to that character:

:inoremap ˆ 

Be careful, because this one wouldn't work (at least in my system, MacOS 10.6). The caret waits for a letter, because it's not exactly a caret, it is a circumflex.