Please, please, PLEASE make this happen. On Feb 17, 11:48 am, Paul LeoNerd Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 07:14:29PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Graywh wrote: > > > > Please fix vim's input queue mechanism with key info structures a.la > > > libtermkey so that LeoNerd can fix terminal input and Gvim and > > > everyone will be happy. Thanks. > > > Send me a patch and I'll look into it. > > > If you want a more useful response, use your real name and include more > > information about what you actually want, what system, etc. > > Hi Bram, > > I would like this. For all systems. Everywhere. > > This is a large undertaking. This isn't a "send me a patch" request. > > I am talking about ripping out the byte-queue input system and replacing > it with a structured keypress queue. The lot. Everything. Remove the > "stuck in the 1970s all the world is a DEC-style glass virtual terminal" > input queue, and replace it with one that has structures; remembers > modifiers, etc.. With a structure we can properly represent "Ctrl-I" as > being the letter I with a control key, totally separate from the Tab. > > Having done this, we can feed in the input events from a terminal in > EXACTLY the same way it currently works. We can take events out to match > them up to map/etc.. much neater. We can feed events in from GTK or > similar GUIs, without having to go near legacy 1970s terminal > technology, meaning that GTK (et.al) users can map Tab, Ctrl-I and > Ctrl-Shift-I, all independently of each other. > > Having done this, I can then quite easily send you a patch to use > libtermkey if that is wanted, because then it will be able to recognise > Tab, Ctrl-I and Ctrl-Shift-I even over terminal from a > properly-configured xterm. But that is PURELY an extension mechanism. My > primary request is to fix the underlying queue mechanism. > > This is an issue that has been dragging on for years now - 7 or 8 years > by my count. 7 or 8 years I have been sitting in #vim on Freenode; in > all that time almost every week we'll get someone or other asking how > they can map some key or other, that we have to keep explaining "No, > sorry, you can't. Not even in GTK.". > > I am happy to sit and discuss it with you for potentially hours if > necessary. What I cannot do is "send a patch" - it's not a small simple > few-lines fix like that. > > I think it is about time we ended this unfortunate situation, and > properly fixed the real underlying mechanism. > > Yours, with my real name, > > -- > Paul "LeoNerd" Evans > > [email protected] > ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload
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