[implementations-list] h/j/k/l keys in Info mode

Wed Feb 17 11:18:23 CET 2010

> From: jasonspiro3 at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:39:58 -0500
>
> I think it would be better for this new code to be in
> viper-in-more-modes or in Viper itself, not in Vimpulse. Ideally
> Viper. In fact, I think it would be best if all of
> viper-in-more-modes and vimpulse were merged into upstream Viper. :)

Well, it seems to me that "viper-in-more-modes" is something of a
misnomer. By default, Viper /is/ in all the modes viper-in-more-modes
provides code for. Viper lists some modes which should come up in
Emacs state in `viper-emacs-state-mode-list', and otherwise vi
(command) state is used. Anyway, all of the modes viper-in-more-modes
concerns itself with are well supported by Viper.

What viper-in-more-modes provides is additional vi state bindings, all
of which are prefixed with SPC (the "leader char"). For example, in
emacs-lisp-mode, you may hit `SPC e' to evaluate the S-exp under
point. In reftex-mode, `SPC =' brings up a table of contents for the
document. And so on. All of this is very useful (and Touch-like!), of
course, but it's not emulation; it's extension. None of the bindings
are to be found anywhere else, not in Vim nor in any Vim plugin I
know of.

Thus, viper-in-more-modes is an original, ground-breaking Viper
extension in its own right. But it doesn't belong in Viper for the
same reason it doesn't belong in Vimpulse: it doesn't emulate
anything. Viper emulates vi and Vimpulse emulates Vim, and the policy
of both is not to include code which falls outside the emulation
target. (Therefore Vimpulse, for its part, can only be merged with
Viper if Michael Kifer, the author, decides to extend Viper's target
from vi to Vim.)

According to this analysis, the Info bindings belong in Vimpulse,
since they /are/ emulation.

> May I suggest that CTRL-O should also go back, and maybe CTRL-]
> should do the same thing as the Enter key does. Both of these changes
> would make your code work more like Vim's help system works.

Done in changeset [93].

http://www.assembla.com/code/vimpulse/subversion/changesets/93

> One question out of curiosity: The changeset description explains
> that "Visual mode exits to Emacs state in [Info] buffers." I haven't
> tested your code, but I can't figure out: why is this?

Info-mode is one of the modes listed in `viper-emacs-state-mode-list'
and comes up in Emacs state, which means none of Viper's keymaps are
active; only `Info-mode-map' is. Vimpulse's code extends
`Info-mode-map', and allows one to enter Visual state for the purpose
of copying things. But when Visual state exits to vi (command) state,
Viper's keymaps become active, overriding Info's commands. With the
improved code, one goes from Emacs state to Visual state and back to
Emacs state so that this doesn't happen.

Vegard

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