vim defaults for tm and ttm are wrong

Bug #1334168 reported by Nick Moffitt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
vim (Ubuntu)
Expired
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Bug Description

While scouring the net for info on curious lag in vim that can eat keystrokes
(devastating over a laggy link, which is one of the primary situations where
vim is useful), every conversation pointed me to `:help ttm`, which says:

    A useful setting would be
            :set timeout timeoutlen=3000 ttimeoutlen=100
    (time out on mapping after three seconds, time out on key codes after a
    tenth of a second).

So it appears that insead of putting the correct defaults in as the defaults,
vim chose to bury the information deep inside the documentation.

As a distro packaging vim, we have an opportunity to fix this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: vim 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.54-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jun 25 10:01:05 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-29 (26 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: vim
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in vim (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-standard-support on April 25, 2019.

I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue while using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Changed in vim (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for vim (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in vim (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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