[Bug 1334168] [NEW] vim defaults for tm and ttm are wrong

[Nick Moffitt]

Public bug reported:

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)

** Affects: vim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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Title:
  vim defaults for tm and ttm are wrong

Status in “vim” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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