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Those OS X keybindings come from Emacs! I bet some vimmers would refuse to use them just on principle. :)

jaequery 9y ago
now that’s funny
sodapopcan 9y ago
I'm a vimmer and always use readline bindings in "insert" mode context. I find using vim bindings on the commandline to be infuriating. On macOS, you need to add the following to $HOME/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict to get ctrl-w and ctrl-u to work everywhere in macOS. { "^w" = "deleteWordBackward:"; "^u" = "deleteToBeginningOfLine:"; }
- omaranto 9y ago
  Oh, if you like those bindings in insert mode, you are probably already aware of Tim Pope's vim-rsi [1] plugin. If not, check it out, it might have some interesting bindings you aren't using yet. [1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi
  - sodapopcan 9y ago
    I'm absolutely aware of it and was gonna mention it but figured I'd said enough :) When I said "insert" I meant like, "insert mode" everywhere else but vim :) But yes, RSI is a great plugin (as are most of tpope's plugins)
    - sodapopcan 9y ago
      Also, you mentioning it made me realize I never starred the repo, so thanks, haha!
- eadmund 9y ago
  > I find using vim bindings on the commandline to be infuriating. Some folks find vim bindings to be just as bad to edit text grin I don't actually agree: I think that vim's text-editing language is actually nicer than emacs's is. But I use emacs — with its bindings, not vim's — because after almost thirty years it's what I'm used to.
  - sodapopcan 9y ago
    Haha, I've never been interested in the whole vim vs. emacs thing. I just started with vim and a little too invested in it now. It definitely drives me nuts that it loads entire files into memory and that is the one thing that has made me tempted to switch. It rarely affects me but every once in a while when I accidentally open a massive file in vim and have to wait, I dream of emacs. I would use evil mode, OF COURSE :)
- Lio 9y ago
  Thanks so much for this. I usually use Karabiner for the same thing. Do you know anyway to get the same behaviour on Linux and Gnome at all?
jsjohnst 9y ago
I’m a heavy vim user and yet I add bindings to vim for Control-A and Control-E.

now that’s funny

I'm a vimmer and always use readline bindings in "insert" mode context. I find using vim bindings on the commandline to be infuriating. On macOS, you need to add the following to $HOME/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict to get ctrl-w and ctrl-u to work everywhere in macOS. { "^w" = "deleteWordBackward:"; "^u" = "deleteToBeginningOfLine:"; }

omaranto 9y ago
Oh, if you like those bindings in insert mode, you are probably already aware of Tim Pope's vim-rsi [1] plugin. If not, check it out, it might have some interesting bindings you aren't using yet. [1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi
- sodapopcan 9y ago
  I'm absolutely aware of it and was gonna mention it but figured I'd said enough :) When I said "insert" I meant like, "insert mode" everywhere else but vim :) But yes, RSI is a great plugin (as are most of tpope's plugins)
  - sodapopcan 9y ago
    Also, you mentioning it made me realize I never starred the repo, so thanks, haha!
eadmund 9y ago
> I find using vim bindings on the commandline to be infuriating. Some folks find vim bindings to be just as bad to edit text grin I don't actually agree: I think that vim's text-editing language is actually nicer than emacs's is. But I use emacs — with its bindings, not vim's — because after almost thirty years it's what I'm used to.
- sodapopcan 9y ago
  Haha, I've never been interested in the whole vim vs. emacs thing. I just started with vim and a little too invested in it now. It definitely drives me nuts that it loads entire files into memory and that is the one thing that has made me tempted to switch. It rarely affects me but every once in a while when I accidentally open a massive file in vim and have to wait, I dream of emacs. I would use evil mode, OF COURSE :)
Lio 9y ago
Thanks so much for this. I usually use Karabiner for the same thing. Do you know anyway to get the same behaviour on Linux and Gnome at all?

jsjohnst 9y ago

I’m a heavy vim user and yet I add bindings to vim for Control-A and Control-E.