> +1 I would also like the popup to be focusable so that it can be used like > a normal window/buffer. Neovim doesn't have this issue. > > Here is another use case for me. This is vim-lsp > <https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp> using hover to show > information about the word under the cursor. Most rust projects have big > docs including great examples and I would like to move around and copy text > from popup, search inside the popup and use all my vim knowledge there. > > Right now the solution for me is to open the website or use neovim.
I have been thinking of this, but it raises many questions: - How to focus a popup? I imagine in most cases you want to switch between the current window and the popup, back and forth. This matters especially if you already have a dozen split windows, you don't want to cycle through all of them to reach the popup, and you don't want to cycle through all windows to end up in the one you were coming from. - If there is more than one focusable popup, how to reach each of them? Perhaps some are connected to a specific window (e.g. for completion or anchored to text), or some are unrelated to a specific window (e.g. help). - What if the focused popup window closes? What if it closes while you are typing (since they might be under control of some async plugin)? - How to avoid this turns into an avalanche of more feature requests? Aka creeping featurism. -- He who laughs last, thinks slowest. /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/202010051427.095ERxUu2417864%40masaka.moolenaar.net.
