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. 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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