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From: | Michael Kifer |
Subject: | bug#13709: bug#13793: 24.3.50; M-x broken in viper and X |
Date: | Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:17:44 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 |
On 02/25/2013 04:35 PM, Stefan Monnier
wrote:
The function `follow_key` has been changed by the problematic commit. Formerly severall keymaps have been passed in an array. Each keymap has been checked in turn for a binding. One of the keymaps is `evil-esc-map`. If this keymap is checked no binding is found. So the next keymap is checked an it may contain a binding for M-x so this binding is used.Oh, I think I see what's going on. So the Evil code (and Viper, since it seems to use the same gymnastics) really relies on some pretty nasty detail of the level at which the M-x => ESC x rewriting took place, which was subtly changed. That could also explain why `f1 f M-x' already didn't find the binding in the old code. Yes, Viper uses a similar mechanism (in the sense of having a special map just for the ESC key). Anyhow, the real problem is to "multiplex" the (kbd "ESC") event in the terminal. Any solution that sends 'escape instead of (kbd "ESC") if another event arrives within a short period should solve the problem.Now my question is: why do it with a minor-mode map rather than with an input-decode-map (which would also save you from having to rely on unread-command-events)? Oh, yes, of course, that input-decode-map binding would collide with the escape-sequence remappings. How 'bout something like: (defvar evil-normal-esc-map (lookup-key input-decode-map [?\e])) (define-key input-decode-map [?\e] `(menu-item "" ,evil-normal-esc-map :filter ,(lambda (map) (if (sit-for evail-esc-delay) [escape] map)))) At the time there was no input-decode-map - I am pretty sure. Viper uses a trick that relies on unread-command-events and emulation-mode-map-alist to distinguish between ESC key and ESC sequences on dumb terminals. (in viper-envelop-ESC-key() in viper-cmd.el). I must admit that the intricacies of the code are rusty in my head now, so it is hard for me to evaluate the consequences of the change. It might simplify things or it might break them. -- --- michael [ Modulo some dance à la evil-esc-mode to add/remove this binding so that code that adds escape sequences to this map never bumps into the [escape] mapping. ] Stefan |
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