Binding [tab] and C-i in viper-vi-basic-map

Sun Jul 11 21:22:11 CEST 2010

Vegard Øye <vegard_oye at hotmail.com> writes:

> On 2010-07-10 10:57, Štěpán Němec wrote:
>
>> While I understand what the change was supposed to do, I don't
>> really understand *why* you did it. Vegard? Does it solve any
>> problems or bring any actual advantages?
>
> I added it on the basis on an e-mail I received about C-i conflicting
> with the use of <tab> as a completion key. (This is quite popular,
> judging by http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabCompletion and the storm
> of blog posts retrieved by Google.)
>
> However, binding C-i in vi state shouldn't affect the binding of <tab>
> in Insert state -- it would only be a problem if you for some reason
> complete words in vi state. Evidently, some people do, as I did
> receive a confirmation that my change fixed the problem.

... just to introduce a different one ;-)

I wonder how those "some people" do the completion in Vi state.

I really don't think it's a good change, for the reasons I gave in the
previous mail -- major modes often do something with the Tab key, and
you now clobber every such binding (in Vi state) with some arbitrary one
hardcoded at Vimpulse load time.

I also don't really understand how the change fixes the completion
problem (or what the problem really was), because even before the change
C-i and <tab> were prefectly different in GUI for me (e.g. in Org mode
<tab> is org-cycle, C-i is vimpulse-jump-forward).

Štěpán