Hi Bram,
2016/07/25 0:33 "Bram Moolenaar" <b...@moolenaar.net>:
>
>
> Nicola wrote:
>
> > 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$
>
> Please, this was not an invitation for everybody to mention their
> favorite adjustments.
Sorry, it's too much.
so do you think this setting is also personal preference, not 'compatible'
one?
set display+=lastline
Any reason to not display long line instead of '@' ?
for speed?
is it really good default value for "normal user" ?
> In this case it's clear that most people,
> including myself, expect Y to yank the current line. Changing this is
> clearly a personal preference, not something that will help all users.
>
> > 2) Make UTF8 the default encoding.
>
> That is something that could break things in weird ways. Vim already
> automatically sets 'encoding' to utf-8 in situations where it makes
> sense.
>
> > > 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).
>
> This already happens when the required xterm version is detected.
>
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