Restore greyed out area after jump to 1st match after a timeout

[mikehaertl]

First: thanks for this awesome plugin! I really start to get the hang of it.

But after some weeks of use I found one thing that could maybe be tweaked. It's about this feature (from the README):

the cursor automatically jumps to the first match by default; pressing any other key than a group-switch or a target label exits the plugin now

After typing 2 chars I often find, that I'm already where I wanted to go. But now the area is still greyed out. All I wanted to do is go to that new location, e.g. to reason about some piece of code. But my brain feels disturbed a lot by the still greyed out area. I now feel a disruption because I have think about "How can I get rid of that greyed out area?". I could press a key without any binding (ESC is to far away. On my german keyboard ä may be a good candidate). But it still requires me to press yet another key - for no real action.

I wonder if we couldn't just get a (configurable) timeout: After the cursor jumped to the first match, we could wait x seconds and then exit the plugin and restore the greyed out area.

Does this make sense? Or is there an even better alternative that I'm missing?

[ggandor]

Sure, this is a sensible idea. I think I even tried it once when developing the plugin, and for some inexplicable reason, found it annoying, but my memory is a bit foggy on that... I will implement this again, maybe push up a branch so that you folks can test it out.

(I personally remap caps lock to esc on the OS level, like many Vimmers, so I've never found this too problematic, reaching to the left with the pinky is such an automatic movement...)

[ggandor]

Implemented by be9e1b4. (Wrong reference in the commit message. To err is human.) EDIT: And here I messed up again, naturally :)

[mikehaertl]

Seems to work fine, thanks!