The general reasoning is that the vim browse patch is very invasive,
has a high level of complexity, and is incompatible with a significant
number of other patches and it complicates further maintenance.
Additionally the patch has its own scrollback mechanism which seemingly
did not work properly - and nobody seems to have complained about this
since the patch was added back in May 2021.
If you want to try out the vim browse patch then I would recommend having
a play around with the patch author's own build that has this patch
integrated:
- https://github.com/juliusHuelsmann/st-history-vim
- https://github.com/juliusHuelsmann/st
Alternatively a tag has been added to this repository that refers to the
last commit that still has the vim browse patch:
- https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch/tree/VIM_BROWSE_PATCH
If the mouse cursor is changed to a bar or an underline then st will use that
when the terminal is first opened. When an application that changes the cursor
via escape sequences is executed, e.g. vim which uses a block cursor by default,
then that cursor will remain after exiting the program.
This change sets the cursor back to default when exiting alt mode.
When an OCS sequence was used to change the bg color, the borders where
dirty. This simple patch just clears the window before the redraw of the
terminal when the bg color has been changed. This is apparently enough
and seams to be very smooth. There was a TODO comment for it on the st.c
file, which I removed.
