How to not get special characters in place of meta key combinations for VIM on OS X
On OS X, at any program, when I type option-p I get π , option-P I get ∏ and there's a bunch of alt / option bindings that just return greek and other special characters. Is there a way to disable that? Currently I'm using the Auto Pairs VIM plugin and it has the following default mappings: <M-p> : Toggle Autopairs (g:AutoPairsShortcutToggle) <M-e> : Fast Wrap (g:AutoPairsShortcutFastWrap) <M-n> : Jump to next closed pair (g:AutoPairsShortcutJump) <M-b> : BackInsert (g:AutoPairsShortcutBackInsert) It seems I can't use these and other meta key based VIM mappings while this special input is