I'm having the following issue. Macbook Pro running Windows 7 as guest OS: Open Putty and SSH into a Linux machine Open vi (or vim) Cmd+tab back to Mac OS Cmd+tab back to Windows guest OS Now to vi help page is suddenly displayed Normally the vi help page is invoked by pressing F1. I haven't found any Parallels setting to influence this behaviour yet. Any clues?
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Disable_F1_built-in_help_key Edit your .vimrc in your home directory on the Linux box and add a line that reads: nmap <F1> <nop> That will fix it.