On 26/02/09 04:21, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
>> Bug? Seems so to me. even two of them (but both related to the 'keymap'
>> option).
>>
>> The one is in menu.vim (Last change: 2008 Aug 22): at lines 365 and 377
>> it uses ":set" rather than ":setlocal", which sets the keymap for _all_
>> future new buffers, not only the current one.
>
> Well, I would think most users actually expect this. Otherwise you need
> to set the keymap for every buffer you open. And usually people use the
> same keymap for multiple files. Not all though, that's why the option
> is local to the buffer.
Some people use the same keymap on most on their files, but I would
expect them to set that keymap in their vimrc, not by means of the "Edit
=> Keymap ..." menu. Menus are for use when _departing_ from what was
set in the vimrc, thus, I would expect, from the odd file using either a
different keymap than the one usually in use, or some keymap when one
usually uses none.
For most files (written in various variants of the Latin alphabet) I use
no keymap and rely on my Belgian keyboard (with its multiple dead keys)
or on digraphs to produce any non-ASCII characters I might need. Now and
then, though, I use either a Russian or an Arabic keymap ("phonetic"
variants I wrote myself) for texts in some non-Latin alphabet. It's
unsettling (to say the least) to open a new buffer, start typing in it,
and discover that one is typing in Cyrillic or Arabic script when Latin
was expected.
>
>> The other is somewhere in the C code: setting 'keymap' (even locally)
>> changes the global default for 'iminsert' which is then set to 1,
>> clobbering any default set at compile-time (0) or in the vimrc (which
>> can be 2 on CJK locales). I would have expected ":setlocal
>> keymap=something" not to touch the 'iminsert' global value. (Setting the
>> _local_ value to 1 is OK, on the assumption that the user wants to
>> immediately start using the newly-set keymap _in the current buffer_.)
>
> Yes, both options are local to the buffer, so when using ":setlocal" on
> 'keymap' then the same should happen for 'iminsert'. How about
> this patch:
[...]
Thanks, I'll try it.
Best regards,
Tony.
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