Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> To get out of the more-prompt, one can hit q or <esc>.
>
> But since the hit-enter-prompt allows entering a command (and does
> not disallow normal mode commands!), hitting q or <esc> at the
> hit-enter-prompt will not only get one out, but will have the
> "side-effect" of being treated as normal mode commands (q will
> start the record command, and <esc> will error or do whatever the
> user has nmap'ped <esc> to do).
>
> So to get out of the prompt, one needs to see if it is a
> more-prompt or a hit-enter-prompt and do different things.
>
> In contrast, hitting : at either prompt does the same thing.
>
> Please consider providing as much of a unified response as
> possible at both prompts. How about the more-prompt treating
> any keystroke that does not start with
>
> <space>, d, j, b, u, k or q as
>
> a command to respond to? And the more-prompt responding
> to <enter> as quit, and/or the hit-enter-prompt responding
> to q as <enter>?
>
> Then one could hit many more keystrokes at either prompt and be
> assured of the same response.
Too many people are used to the current behavior. Changing how command
keys are interpreted, especially at the hit-enter prompt, will cause
mistakes.
The one key that could be used for "quit" is escape, but unfortunately
it's also the start of special keys and can't be detected reliably or
only with a delay.
In the future we might want to have a bit more functionality at the
more-prompt, allowing an (arbitrary) set of letters to be interpreted as
commands would block that.
A consistent "quit" for both prompts is using CTRL-C.
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