Enso cannot be used in non-standard apps

[Drarok]

Applications such as Vim and putty do not accept a standard Ctrl-V, could Enso have a list of these non-standard apps and type out replacement text key-by-key instead?

Obviously Enso won't be able to get the current selection, but that's ok for me because I use Vim most of the time for my development, and have written a basic text expander for Enso. I mainly need to paste into it (for example, I have a command "expand throw" which will paste "throw new Exception('message');").

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

Is Shift+Insert working for you in these applications?
I have tried vim/gVim 7.1 and Putty on windows, Shift+Insert works for inserting the text.

I am just asking to clarify the best approach when implementing the 'fix'

[Drarok (webmaster-drarok)]

I'll have to give that a try tomorrow. Interesting that they'd implement those shortcuts...

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

Shift+Insert is better than inserting the text letter-by-letter because it works also inside vim normal mode.
I admit that it maybe does not work by default as I am using already tweaked configuration.

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

I have tried again, running gvim without vimrc and plugins:

gvim.exe -u NONE

and even in this bare default config, Ctrl-Insert works for copying in every mode and Shift-Insert works for pasting in every mode.

Please confirm as well on your system. I will then implement the workaround in Enso.

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

OK, correct sequence for vim/gVim seems to be following:

Copy (without clearing the selection):

1. copy to windows clipboard (clears selection): Ctrl-Insert
2. exit to normal mode: Ctrl-[
3. do it second time, if selection was made inside insert/append mode using Shift-arrowkeys, first Ctrl-[ only clears selection: Ctrl-[
4. return to last selection: gv

Paste

1. Shift-Insert

[Drarok (webmaster-drarok)]

Hmm, I'm seeing slightly different gvim behaviour.

Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert work for copy and paste, which is great! But the selection is immediately cleared when I copy with ctrl-insert. Then I can do "gv" to re-select, and shift-insert replaces the selection with the clipboard contents.

There's no need to exit to normal mode or press escape on my machine. I used `gvim -u NONE`.

I've confirmed that pasting with Shift-Insert works on PuTTY as well. Its default behaviour is to set the clipboard contents as soon as the selection is made, so do we need to assume the current clipboard contents is the selection?

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

Yes, there we have to expect the user doing the selection before, I found no way to detect if the text in clipboard comes from Putty or not.

Regarding the Ctrl+[: It depends on where you do the selection. If you do it inside insert/append mode, then we need to go
into normal mode first, before using 'gv'. And if you are already in normal mode, extra Ctrl+[ doesn't hurt.

[Drarok (webmaster-drarok)]

Ah, I see it now - I very rarely use the mouse for selections so couldn't figure out how to get a selection in insert mode.

An extra Ctrl-[ can't hurt, as you said (apart from a beep), so I'd agree that's a sensible solution. :)

[Drarok (webmaster-drarok)]

Hmm, I've merged this branch into my testing one, and spotted some strange behaviour. Problem is, it's not Enso's fault!

According to my test, pressing Shift-Insert to paste a replacement swallows the space before the word, but only when the replaced word is on the end of the line. Bizarre!
Demo video: http://www.drarok.com/files/Vim%20WTF.mp4

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

This is indeed bizarre. I have the same problem.
But if running Vim normally, with vimrc and plugins, everything works correctly.
It seems to be something in Vim settings.

I don't think we can solve this with any other approach.