Re: Where is defined?

On Wednesday 27 April 2011 21:04:34 Ben Schmidt wrote:

> <localleader> to <voleader> before executing it.
>
> My main question though, is, why do you want to do this? Maybe if you
> explain your motivation more, there is a more standard 'Vim way' to do
> what you are wanting, or some other advice the list could give.

:-)(

Ugh!

This is for VimOutliner (VO, http://www.vimoutliner.net). THE top priority of
VO is fast authoring. As a matter of fact, I'd go so far as to say if a
modification makes VimOutliner slow to author, it's no longer VimOutliner.

For that reason, starting with the very first version of VO, VO's command
prefix for special VO commands is two commas (,,). Extremely fast, extremely
easy for the touch typist.

Some time around VO 0.2.4, VO stopped hard-coding .. and began to set
<localleader> to ,, and put <localleader> in all VO's map commands. Then our
troubles began.

The Debian maintainer changed <localleader> to two backslashes or something
like that, with the explanation that Debian must default <localleader> to that
or it's not a Debian package.

I don't know anything about that, but I can tell you that if every command
starts with \\, it's not VimOutliner, it's some poke slow piece of software.

So the best of both worlds is to stop using <localleader> for the VO command
prefix.. Personally I'd just hardcode ,, but there seems to be some resistance
to that -- maybe for a reason similar to an aversion to magic numbers. Or
maybe because a person missing their right middle finger would want to change
that command prefix.

So anyway, all we have to do is define a command or key or variable or
whatever that isn't currently a part of Vim, and that way the Debian people
can define <localleader> however they want, and we can default our command
prefix to the tried and true ,,.

So, within that context, what do you think?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
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