Michael Henry wrote:
> Andy Wokula suggested a solution to the problem that
> buffer-local mappings have to wait if they are prefixes of
> global mappings. Below is a patch that implements his
> suggestion.
>
> A new 'localmaplinger' option is introduced. When set (the
> default), Vim behaves in the traditional way. When reset,
> complete buffer-local mappings will be accepted immediately
> without waiting for incomplete global mappings.
>
> As I'd commented in a previous thread, it's hard to know what
> name to choose for this option; improvements to the name are
> welcome.
>
> The patch includes documentation along with the minor code
> change. I didn't know how to implement a test for this
> functionality. If anyone has a suggestion on that front, I'd be
> happy to try to implement something.
I do not like the behavior to depend on timing. I would prefer the
local mapping to always take precedence, also when another character was
already typed that causes a global mapping to match. Otherwise the
behavior depends on how busy your computer is, or the remote connection.
Even better would be if we do not need an option at all. Every option
makes it more difficult for a Vim user to understand what's happening.
So would it be "the right thing to do" to always let local mappings
overrule any matching global mapping? It's a slightly incompatible
change though. But the current behavior is bad enough to accept that
(you need to type another chacter to stop waiting for the possibility
that the global mapping would match).
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