Re: [Vim-latex-devel] German quotation marks and `

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Benji Fisher wrote:

>       Change the defaults.  Almost all Insert-mode mappings should be
> off by default.
>

That was not what I was looking for. I would still like German writers
to use `g for \gamma. Changing defaults only means that either we hide
the problems by default, or just ignore german users... I dont think
either is a solution. What I was looking for was ways to "solve" the
problem of things like `g getting expanded in unexpected places...

Moreover, I think if we actually have a system where `g expands to
\gamma very intelligently based on context, then leaving it on by
default is not a bad idea at all... "very intelligently" ofcourse
depends on programming effort. Right now we only check for english
quotes and diacritics, but in the future, we might be able to check if
we are in math mode and only then expand... If we can do something like
that, then having this feature on by default is a good thing, imo.

Another thing: Although its a good thing not to get too invasive with
mappings, its also necessary to make something which functions well out
of the box. I dont think its good to make it necessary for the user to
define lots of variables...

The same thing applies to the smart quotes feature... We will definitely
have a few bug reports from a few users every now and then, but we
should weigh that against how probable it is that an average user would
like this feature on (by default). For example, we disabled diacritics
by default, because we decided mutually that most users find this too
invasive...  Before disabling anything by default, we should decide
whether the majority would have liked it enabled by defualt...

Srinath