On 22-06-28 02:14pm, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Mark Jamsek:
> 
> > As Stefan suggested in the original thread, enable user-defined timeout
> > for compound keymaps, configurable with an envvar. This also increases
> > the default value to 1 second (up from 0.5s).
> 
> Why do we even need a timeout if the number is echoed?
> The search prompt does not time out either.

I think the search prompt is a bit different to the count prefix; at
least it behaves differently in vi(1) (i.e., the search term is
echoed and has no timeout but the count prefix doesn't echo and does
have a timeout), which is the same behaviour as tog. This is again
different to less(1) though.

> I don't understand what problem this is trying to solve.

With the timeout you don't need to press anything to abort a prefix.
Without the timeout, you need to either follow through with a keymap or
enter some non-numeric, non-valid keymap to cancel a partial count.

For example:

# without timeout
12 # actually, I wanted 22
x # invalid keymap to cancel the 12
22j

# with timeout
12 # I wanted 22, wait 500ms
22j

That's how I use it. I'm not sure if there are any other benefits.

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