On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Paul LeoNerd Evans 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.
[...]
I am talking about ripping out the byte-queue input system and replacing
it with a structured keypress queue. [...]
Having done this, I can then quite easily send you a patch to use
libtermkey [...]
Tab, Ctrl-I and Ctrl-Shift-I even over terminal from a
properly-configured xterm. [...]
So, from other responses, it seems (to me) that the problem isn't
necessarily in the input queue, per se. "Special" keys are already
represented in some internal format (perhaps not-well-documented, since
it's internal, but still represented). (example of undocumented nature
is the K_IGNORE special key trick that stopped working when its keycode
was either changed or eliminated [1]).
Taking that as a given, I'm going to ignore that aspect of this issue.
My question is about libtermkey. I was curious enough to download it,
unpack it, `make` it, and run ./demo. And, surprisingly, given that it
seems to be the favored example, pressing <Tab>, then <Ctrl>+<i>, then
<Ctrl>+<Shift>+<i> gave me the output sequence:
<Tab>
<Tab>
<Tab>
So, I'm wondering: what does libtermkey bring to the table?
I tested under both rxvt-unicode (my preferred terminal emulator) and
uxterm (which, AFAIK, is a "properly-configured" xterm). If
"properly-configured" actually means "specially-configured", how would
using libtermkey be anything less than a huge PITA when working on
multiple systems that aren't so configured? Or is this a
chicken-and-egg problem? (Nothing is configured to send anything other
than 70's-style "<C-i>" == "<Tab>", so nothing ever will be.)
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Best,
Ben
[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/8c535e5cf2b35f63/319b3113716e52d5
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