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Anyone using fish in Vim mode? Does it work well? Last time I tried I had not such a good time. Would love to see a tutorial on how to use it efficiently.
by cassepipe 5y ago
Anyone using fish in Vim mode? Does it work well?
Last time I tried I had not such a good time. Would love to see a tutorial on how to use it efficiently.
- urxvtcd 5y agoI always wondered why anyone would do this. IMHO modality and shells just don't get along well. Besides that, readline-like bindings are both good enough and you're likely to encounter them in the wild when working with ssh, database prompts, and so on.
- karlicoss 5y agoYep, what kind of issues you had? Works well for me. Not sure what do you mean by efficiently -- but my tip is pressing alt-e to edit the command in external editor when it's multiline (although it's not limited to vi mode in fish)
- __jem 5y agoIt interacts pretty poorly with, e.g., terminals in IDEs, but is essential for my day to day in my regular terminal emulator. Worth noting I'm not a vim power user, but I could live without vim keybindings for moving around, it just feels more naturally.
- iamevn 5y agoI have tried vim mode in fish and I didn't like it. I find I don't really need vim bindings in the shell because I'm almost never editing. Alt+e to open the current command line in my editor works really well for me when I do want vim.