On 2016-07-24 13:02:56 +0000, Bram Moolenaar said:
Vim has always been conservative about the default option values.
Without any .vimrc the default is 'compatible'. That's nice for people
who rely on the old Vi. But how many of these still exist? I expect
nearly all Vim users to want 'nocompatible', thus create a .vimrc ASAP.
What has stopped me from changing this is the unexpected change. Many
users will notice that Vim suddenly behaves differently. Some may be
upset. The release of Vim 8.0 might be the best point in time to do
this. If we do this.
Talking as someone who has been using Vim only for a couple of years and
who does not work with systems more than a decade old, I would welcome
such changes. And a major release obviously provides the best opportunity
for introducing backward-incompatible changes.
I agree with the defaults you are proposing. How about the following?
1) nnoremap Y y$
2) Make UTF8 the default encoding.
What we can probably always do:
" In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it.
if has('mouse')
set mouse=a
endif
I would also set ttymouse=sgr when possible (but I do not know all the
implications).
Nicola
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