Ingo Karkat wrote: > On 14-Oct-2013 15:32 +0200, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 14:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Joseph Pea > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> [...] > >> > >> I hope this proposal becomes reality sometime sooner than later! > > > > +1 > > > > This has been dragging on for years now (I think it was 8 years > > ago that I first commented this to vim-dev@). > > Thank you for being so persistent! > > > We've yet to even receive agreement /that/ the problem really > > exists, let along agreement on /how/ to fix it, or heaven forbid, a > > patch to actually fix it. > > To provide evidence that this issue indeed troubles many people > (especially newcomers to Vim), I've been meticulously tagging all > related questions that regularly come up on Stack Overflow and related > sites (by referencing Paul's name in my answers): > > https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com%20%2B%22Ingo%20Karkat%22%20%22foremost%20Paul%20LeoNerd%20Evans%22 > (about 29 results) > > https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asuperuser.com+%2B%22Ingo+Karkat%22+%22foremost+Paul+LeoNerd+Evans%22 > (3 results) > > That's more than 30 confused and eventually disappointed users (over the > past ~ 1.5 years). > > To regain momentum, I think it would help if Bram would briefly signal a > willingness to consider this for a future Vim 8.0. Then, after a > re-evaluation of the floated proposals, we'd hopefully agree on an > approach and have some volunteers start implementing on a branch off 7.4. > > I'd be certainly willing to comment and try out patches. My personal > motivation is that I'm running out of keys for short custom mappings :-)
I already said this: It's fine to add so long as it's 100% backwards compatible. That means encoding keys on top of what's already there, and falling back to the ordinary key if the key + modifier isn't mapped. How to detect the modifiers for many terminals in a portable way, without requiring installing an obscure library (at least Ubuntu must have it), I don't know. -- An indication you must be a manager: You feel sorry for Dilbert's boss. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
