Re: mappings time out bug?

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:42:06 AM UTC-4, ZyX wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2013 1:37 PM, "Liang Li" <q33...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:19:06 AM UTC-4, ZyX wrote:
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> > > On Jun 19, 2013 1:13 PM, "Liang Li" <q33...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > This behavior confuses me. It feels like a bug.
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> > > > I have the following mapping
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> > > > nnoremap gp `[v`]
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> > > > since 'g' is not mapped, it shouldn't timeout no matter what the timeout length is right? As expected, the built in mapping for gp, gv, etc. both work no matter how long one waits between the g and the p.
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> > > Wrong. There is no built-in mappings like gp. More, there is no normal command gp. What is being done there is invocation of the getchar-like function after pressing g. Think of it as a special submode: enter-g-command-tail.
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> > :help gp
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> > ["x]gp                  Just like "p", but leave the cursor just after the new
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> >                         text.  {not in Vi}
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> Don't point me to help. Take vim source code and look there. **There** is no gp mapping. There *is* code catching 'g' and using blocking read via getchar-like function to get next character ('p' in this case).

Thanks for friendly welcome.

You just basically explained, I suppose, why there is a bug. That doesn't make it less of a bug. If I say, "Hey, this program crashes when I press the 'Q' key", you can say, "Well, when you press the Q key it divides by zero. That's expected behavior when one divides by zero." ...hmmmm...

The fact is that if I remap gp, after the timeout it triggers the 'predefined' gp, rather than the expected behavior of triggering my remapping. The fact that this is unexpected behavior makes it a bug.

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