Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:57:01 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 219941] editors/vim usability regresseion, at least for vim-lite users -> new port editors/vim7 Message-ID: <bug-219941-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D219941 Bug ID: 219941 Summary: editors/vim usability regresseion, at least for vim-lite users -> new port editors/vim7 Product: Ports & Packages Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: Individual Port(s) Assignee: adamw@FreeBSD.org Reporter: bugzilla.freebsd@omnilan.de Flags: maintainer-feedback?(adamw@FreeBSD.org) Assignee: adamw@FreeBSD.org Why a new port editors/vim7? At some point, vim-lite auto-enabled "visual" mode when selecting text with= the mouse. Having used vim-lite from ports for many years out of the box, I was very annoyed especially since the upstream documentation is horrible, at least f= or non participating developers. Recently, the out-of-box config additionally resulted in a ESC delay (made cursor keys behaving differently until timeout passed ?!?), which made vim-= lite completely unusable for me. Lots of confusing blogs/sources mentioned different solutions/things to bla= me.=20 After I spent a decent amount of time trying to find a reason why I'm force= d to manually intercept to get vim back to the last-15-years-behaviour, I spent = more time looking at competitors =E2=80=93 with only joe fitting my CLI needs. = But I'm quiet quick with vi for my tasks and don't see a chance ever reaching the s= ame efficiency with joe (jmacs). So I went back to vim and decided to create an inofficial vim7 port, to avo= id any upcoming operational surprises.=20 Simply checked out r422333, the last 7-version (7.4.2367 which already had = the visual-mode defaults.vim, introduced at any point after 7.4.1832) and incorporated the "official" patches for CVE-2016-1248 and CVE-2017-5953. Most important, the FreeBSD port specific vimrc was extended by 'let skip_defaults_vim =3D 1'. The latter is one easy solution to get rid of the 2016 introduced heavy usa= ge regression, at least for vim-lite users. So I'm voting for inclusion in editors/vim. Whether people might need/want vim7 in the official ports tree is beyond my scope. If so, here's a skeleton to start (will add different attachments in separa= te comment, since I can only attach one file here?). Decision should be descu= ssed with recent and current vim maintainers I guess. -harry --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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