2.4.0 – Timeouts

Changes

Key Combos

Timeouts

• Add g:libmodalTimeouts and mode-specific timeout variables.
• Modes can now optionally time-out when waiting for user input (input will clear, just like in normal mode).
  • This will only occur if the user has entered a key that has a mapping in the modeCombos dict. Otherwise, the user's input will be automatically cleared.
• Timeouts are not implemented for modeCallbacks— they must be implemented by mode creators using timers.

Cloberring

• Key combos no longer clobber each other when they share beginnings that are shorter.

  • e.g. zfo used to wipe out any z or zf mappings (although zfx would work just fine).

• When a combo has both a command and sub-mappings, it is now automatically mapped to <CR>.

  • e.g.:

   let s:modeCombos = {
   \	'z': 'split',
   \	'zf': 'tabnew'
   \	'zfo': 'tabclose'
   \}

  Is now translated to:

   let s:internalModeCombos = {
   \	'z': {
   \		'<CR>': 'split',
   \		'f': {
   \			'<CR>': 'tabnew',
   \			'o': 'tabclose'
   \		}
   \	}
   \}

  • Dictionaries are not expanded to include <CR> annotations until necessary, in order to be more space-efficient.

• Unfortunately, the g:libmodalTimeout feature will not automatically execute these commands for you.

  • This is a limitation of Vimscript. There is a rewrite of this plugin being developed for Neovim only that is capable of doing this and more (find it here when it is complete).