[bug] exmode takes long to appear and misses my keystrokes.

[trusktr]

Execute Vim Mode Plus: Clip Debug Info(which write info to clipboard) then paste here.

debug info with package info

```json { "atom": "1.27.1", "platform": "darwin", "release": "17.5.0", "vmpVersion": "1.32.0", "vmpConfig": { "keymapYToYankToLastCharacterOfLine": true, "blackholeRegisteredOperators": [], "startInInsertModeScopes": [], "charactersToAddSpaceOnSurround": [], "highlightSearchExcludeScopes": [], "flashOnOperateBlacklist": [] }, "activeCommunityPackages": [ "atom-material-syntax: 1.0.8", "atom-vim-like-tab: 1.5.1", "ex-mode-sort: 1.0.0", "hey-pane: 1.1.0", "keystroke: 0.4.0", "minimap: 4.29.8", "minimap-quick-highlight: 1.0.1", "one-tab: 0.10.0", "quick-highlight: 0.13.0", "teletype: 0.13.2", "vim-mode-plus: 1.32.0", "vim-mode-plus-keymaps-for-surround: 0.2.1", "language-pug: 0.0.22", "platformio-ide-terminal: 2.8.1", "ex-mode: 0.18.0" ] } ```

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Check list

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• [x] Provide your environment info clipped by Vim Mode Plus: Clip Debug Info command.
• [x] Try with latest Atom and latest vim-mode-plus.
• [x] Pick descriptive and non-ambiguous subject
• [x] Express "what" you want(feature? config option?, behavior change?) in short sentence(not long!). behavior change
• [x] Contrast current behavior if you want to change current behavior, with sample text, operation(keystroke) and result. current behavior is that exmode can take some time before it appears, and by the time it appears I may have already typed what I wanted, but it won't appear in the exmode. This is a horrible experiene because while waiting for exmode to appear, the keystrokes can run other commands and modify the text buffer, making me have to cancel what I was doing and go fix it, then again hit : but this time wait for possibly more than 1 second before typing. It's quite frustrating and disruptive to workflow.
• [x] Include real use case so that maintainer can understand "why" you need help. We need to be able to type something like :w quickly to save a file, without having to wait for exmode to open.
• [x] Include Atom(atom --version), vim-mode-plus version, and OS version(e.g. macOS Sierra 10.12.3).
• [ ] If keybinding issue, Read this.

[trusktr]

I'm trying to get by, but it is completely unusable.

[t9md]

Which ex-mode pkg are you using?

[trusktr]

Oops, wait, I have ex-mode installed. I'll post there. Sorry!

[trusktr]

Well, I just tried vim-mode-plus-ex-mode and it has the same issue. I type my commands too fast, before the palette is open. It makes it difficult to use.

[t9md]

I can understand your issue, theoretically it can be happen. But I'm not so interested to fix this issue unless I get more reasonable input for background, frequency, no alternative solution for that something like these...

For :w issue. I recommend you to use savecmd-s(macOS). And taking over 1sec for launching ex-mode is too long. At least from 2nd invocation, it should open instantly.

[t9md]

Btw, I tried with vim-mode-plus-ex-mode, and cannot reproduce it. And this is not issue of vim-mode-plus. So please report it to ex-mode first. I think vmp-side can do nothing to fix your issue.

[trusktr]

@t9md I figured out what was causing it! I had some keymaps like this in keymaps.cson:

    ': t a b n enter': 'atom-vim-like-tab:new'
    ': t a b c enter': 'atom-vim-like-tab:close'

So because the keymap uses :, if I press :, it will wait for the time out before executing the : command to open ex-mode.

So, I removed these type of maps and turned ex-mode back on. Woo hoo!

(atom-vim-like-tab is very nice, by the way. Finally, vim tabs with splits inside of them)