Re: [Vimprobable-users] [PATCH] Ignore irrelevant modifiers in key events.

[Hans-Peter D. <hpd...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 17:25 Thu 22 Sep     , Hans-Peter Deifel wrote:
> NOTE: Keybindings like 'S-x' in vimprobablerc will stop working and
>       should now be written as simply 'X'.

I think I need to elaborate on this one:

Unfortunately, gdk_keymap_translate_keyboard_state doesn't allow us to
strip irrelevant modifiers from the event _and_ the stored key binding.
Thus, bindings with such modifiers will be considered different from
their counterparts without the modifiers (and the actual events). The
example in the commit message illustrates this.

Note, that this renders the "Shift"-modifier almost useless for
'map'-bindings, because the only keys that don't change their symbol
with shift cannot be bound with 'map'. (E.g. Space, Return, etc.)

The vimprobablerc(1) man page currently has some examples using
"S-something". Those need to be either removed or adapted, but I didn't
want to change the man page before the move to section 5 is merged.

I think we should also make it possible to bind to keys like Space or
Return with 'map'. Generally map should accept a sufficiently large
subset of Vim's own map-bindings. Unfortunately I don't have the time to
implement this myself right now, but it should definitely stay on the
To-do list.


Regards,
HP