On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 17:47:30 +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > We call them normal and command mode in the manpage under bind-key so it > should probably change that to insert and command.
Ah, yep. > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:43:05PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 15:51:32 +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > All the vi-copy defaults are for normal mode (insert mode), so > > > presumably this comment should be different. > > > > In vi, 'normal' is the command mode (inserting happens in 'insert' > > mode). > > > > > There is nothing stopping people binding commands in either mode though > > > (and for all I know people do) so not sure we should prevent it like > > > this. > > > > It's prevented by not handling any of the typical commands used in > > normal mode (substitute, end-of-word, delete-word, etc.). Allowing it is > > pretty half-hearted since only 'X', '^H', and 'd', would work from the > > default table anyways. > > But the user could bind them to whatever they like if they wanted. Right, but there's no docs for what methods would work and which wouldn't in this case (documenting that command mode doesn't work at window-copy's prompt would be easier). I had it as a TODO item to merge the status-bar with window-copy's prompt. I can resurrect it if that would be wanted. --Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
