Solution for meta/escape in terminal mode

Wed Apr 25 23:09:57 CEST 2012

Thanks,

That fixed it.  Stupid tmux.

-Jason

On 12:06 Wed 25 Apr     , Mark Tran wrote:
>    Add the following in your .tmux.conf:
> 
>    set -s escape-time 0
> 
>    Frank explained the cause of this issue in the ticket below:
> 
>    https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/69/delay-between-esc-or-c-and-mod
>    eswitch#comment-974045
> 
>    On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jason Miller wrote:
> 
>    Hi Frank,
>    I just ran a few tests and the problem does only appear to be an issue
>    under tmux, when I use a bare terminal (rxvt-unicode) everything works
>    fine.
>    An example of the problem would be from insert mode quickly pressing
>    ESC k,
>    which I expect to exit insert mode and move up a line. Under tmux it
>    just says "End of buffer" and remains in insert mode.
>    -Jason
>    On 08:40 Wed 25 Apr , Frank Fischer wrote:
> 
>    On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:08:58PM -0700, Jason Miller wrote:
> 
>    I really like evil under X, but find it nearly unusable in a terminal
>    due to escape/meta clashing in insert mode. I currently use exactly one
>    meta keybinding in insert mode (M-Tab) and hardly ever press tab in
>    normal mode, so ideally I'd like to supress all meta bindings except
>    M-Tab while in insert mode.
> 
>    M- keybindings are usually placed in a keymap under the ESC prefix
>    key, so you could, e.g., replace the binding on ESC by some direct
>    command:
>    (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "ESC")
>    #'evil-force-normal-state)
>    But this would disable M-TAB as well. There is, afaik, no easy way to
>    get both because you can only have either the direct command bound to
>    ESC or the prefix-map.
>    But I think I do not understand your problem. What *exactly* does not
>    work as you expect? Evil tries to deal with escape/meta in terminal
>    mode (by doing some magic with a command bound to ESC which sometimes
>    behaves like a prefix-map) and it should work in almost all cases. If
>    it does not work we would like to know the exact situation when this
>    happens.
>    And for problems with terminal mode it is important to know which
>    terminal you use and if you use a terminal multiplexer like screen or
>    tmux.
>    Frank
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