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mawww's experiment for a better code editor
http://kakoune.org
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[BUG] #4932

Open jam1015 opened 1 year ago

jam1015 commented 1 year ago

Version of Kakoune

Kakoune v2022.10.31

Reproducer

Describe the bug

In vim and neovim I use CTRL-[ to escape insert mode. That works in Kitty and all other terminals.

I'm fooling around with Kakoune, In other terminals (the base tty before launching the x gui session, alacritty, xterm) CTRL-[ successfully gets out of insert mode in Kakoune. This does not work in Kitty. I press CTRL-[ and nothing happens.

Verified that the problem ixists in MacOS and Arch Linux.

Problem persists with kitty --config NONE.

I will post this bug report here and in the Kakoune repo.

To Reproduce

Launch Kakoune in Kitty, press i to enter insert mode, and then press CTRL-[ to try to get back to normal mode. Nothing happens. Try the same in a different terminal and you do get back to normal mode.

Try with vim/neovim in any terminal including Kitty and you successfully leave insert mode.

Outcome

Insert mode is not left

Expectations

CTRL-[ should leave insert mode.

Additional information

No response

krobelus commented 1 year ago

as a workaround I use these mappings

map global insert <c-[> <esc>
map global prompt <c-[> <esc>

whether we should make this the default behavior I'm not sure. See also https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/pull/4575#discussion_r836788885

krobelus commented 1 year ago

on current master this prompt mode mapping unfortunately won't add to history like Escape does; https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/pull/4695fixes that

jam1015 commented 1 year ago

good to know! Does this lack of adding to history have any practical implications for editing?

krobelus commented 1 year ago

only for prompt history; when you cancel a prompt with Escape, then you can still recover the typed command by going back to the prompt and pressing the up arrow. It's big deal but it's a good feature to have sometimes