Alexey I. Froloff wrote:
* Bram Moolenaar <Bram@> [061022 17:41]:
I don't want to support that, because it causes mistakes. Consider
being in Insert mode and typing "<Esc> o" to open a new line or "<Esc>
n" to find the next match. A timeout won't help, the two keys can be
typed within ten msec.
So, all plugins that imap something to Alt+Key a screwed up in
all non-ascii 8-bit locales. Moreover, such maps breaks normal
text entering.
There is something outside your latin-1 world. Take a look
around, you, 7-bit racists.
- Maybe Bram Moolenaar can type at 100 keystrokes / second, I can't.
Especially if one of the keys is <Esc>, which is far away from almost
everything else.
- Each user can choose his/her own mappings. No one forces you to imap
Alt-something. If it doesn't work for you, use something else. I recommend the
F keys with or without Shift, with the exception of unshifted F1 and F10:
these collide with neither Vim commands nor printable characters, and they are
reliably detected in most OSes.
- Unlike US-ASCII, Latin1 is an 8-bit (not 7-bit) locale, which includes 8-bit
letters like á à é ê è ë (accented vowels), ß (eszett), ø (o-bar), ç
(c-cedilla), þ (thorn), ð (edh), etc.
- There is indeed something beyond 7-bit ASCII, but that is no excuse for bad
language. The Vim mailing lists have a reputation of civility, and I for one
don't want that reputation to go to the dogs. Now let me be clear: telling
somebody that (s)he's mistaken is OK. Throwing names like "racist", isn't.
- What about the part you snipped (about CSI rather than ESC)?
Regards,
Tony.
