feat(keymap)!: replace expr keymaps with normalized feedkeys execution

[soifou]

Revamp keymap handling by moving away from expr mappings to a normalized feedkeys approach, fixing several long-standing edge cases around multi-key mappings, fallbacks, and interoperability with other plugins.

• Handle multi-key sequences
  Issue: keymap ['<C-x><C-o>'] = { 'show' } does not work #453

{
    ['jk'] = { 'hide', 'fallback' },
    ['<C-x><C-o>'] = { 'show', 'fallback' },
    ['<Leader>cc'] = { 'show', 'fallback' },
}

• Preserve key special notation when fallback
  Issue: Extended Keys (<C-i>, <C-m>) for keymaps #2119

vim.keymap.set('i', '<C-i>', function() vim.print('fallback to <C-i>') end, { unique = false })
vim.keymap.set('i', '<Tab>', function() vim.print('fallback to <Tab>') end, { unique = false })
vim.keymap.set('i', '<C-m>', function() vim.print('fallback to <C-m>') end, { unique = false })

{       
    ['<C-i>'] = { 'accept', 'snippet_forward', 'fallback' }, -- when fall back prints "fallback to <C-i>"
    ['<C-m>'] = { 'accept', 'fallback' }, -- when fall back prints "fallback to <C-m>"
}

• Key composition

{
    ['<C-n>'] = { 'select_next' },
    ['<Tab>'] = {
       function() return '' end, -- would fallback
       function() return '<C-n>' end, -- would call `select_next`
    },
},

• Recursive keymap

vim.keymap.set('i', '<F2>', '<Esc>:echo "Hello from F2"<CR>a', { noremap = true, silent = true })
{
   ['<Space><Space>'] = { function() return '<F2>' end }, -- would print "Hello from F2"
}

• Handle script mappings correctly: <SNR>, <SID>, <Plug>
  Issue: Keymap fallback doesn't handle script mappings #714

vim.cmd([[
  function! s:MyFunction()
    echo "script local function invoked"
  endfunction

  nnoremap <silent> <SNR>42_mykey :call <SID>MyFunction()<CR>
  nnoremap <silent> <Plug>(MyPlug) :echo "Plug mapping triggered"<CR>
]])

{
    ['<Leader>m'] = { function() return '<Esc><Plug>(MyPlug)a' end }, -- prints "Plug mapping triggered"
}

• Handle remap mappings correctly
  Issue: { "select_accept_and_enter", "fallback" } Does not trigger abbreviations in cmdline #2263
• Apply blink.cmp keymaps eagerly when triggering snippets from normal mode
  Issue: bug(snippets): jump not triggered unless user have entered insert mode before #2164
• Reapply blink.cmp keymaps if stolen by others
  Issue: Keymap not work with plugin vim-visual-multi #406
• Add description for blink.cmp keymaps
  Issue: More Detailed Descriptions for Preset Keymaps #2281
• Refactoring:
  • Consolidate and keep the keymap module as simply as possible
  • Don't rely anymore on expr,
  • Drop the vim.schedule in all commands and return boolean value from the function itself:

-  vim.schedule(function() completion_list.accept(opts) end)
-  return true
+  return completion_list.accept(opts)

• Documentation: Revamp the keymap section
  Issue: Documentation bug: keymap commands function examples missing return #2182

[saghen]

Does calling feedkeys have any caveats that we should be aware of? If not, I'd like to adopt it for all the keymaps! Avoiding expr = true would avoid having to vim.schedule anything that edits the buffer, which would be great for scriptability. I don't mind the way you're detecting multi-key mappings but it would be great if there was a less hacky way (maybe replace_keycodes could help?)

[soifou]

Thanks for the feedback, you give me some additional thinking! I'd like to explore this approach a bit more. The feedkeys solution does seem cleaner and we could get rid of multi-key detection if we turn off expr.

Edit: Updated PR description

[saghen]

Wow this is quite a bit of work, you'd end up fixing all the major issues with keymaps! These changes would be breaking, since theyre no longer vim.schedule so it might make sense to artificially vim.schedule or merge this into a new v2 branch.

Fyi, I got a bit ambitious with v2 so I'm going to reduce its scope. Just planning some light refactoring, these keymap changes, source-per-LSP, adopt blink.lib, and the improved API (for keymaps, enable, vim.g, dynamic config, etc)

[soifou]

Yeah, as long as I'm here, I might as well fix these issues once and for all. I've had promising results locally. I don't mind working on this for v2, but last time I switched to this branch, everything was so broken that it was hard to make any convincing commits. Feel free to keep in touch on Matrix to coordinate!