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As a long time macOS user, I’ve seen a lot of praise for BBEdit. However I find it unusable without a way to enable Vim keybindings. It’s great that BBEdit is
by ssbash 3y ago
As a long time macOS user, I’ve seen a lot of praise for BBEdit.
However I find it unusable without a way to enable Vim keybindings.
It’s great that BBEdit is still going strong 30 years later. But could the team throw us Vim users a bone?
Even Panic’s Nova has Vim bindings built in.
- eschaton 3y agoAre you trying to use it on an ADM-3A or something? It’s a Macintosh application, it uses the Macintosh key bindings. If you’d rather use vi just use it.
- ssbash 3y agoWhy does every text editor and IDE provide the option for vi keybinds is if it’s such a sin on macOS. Just because BBEdit existed during the Classic Macintosh days doesn’t mean we should be forced to use those keybindings forever. I don’t see why providing the option for vi bindings is such a monumental ask? I’m not asking the default to be changed.
- eschaton 3y agoBecause there’s a bunch of Hackernews trying to mimic the superficial trappings of their tech heroes by using extremely obfuscated interfaces and they get extremely loud when they’re not catered to. The risk in adding something like “`vi` keybindings” is that it’s never going to be enough for the people demanding it. They tend to always want more and deeper integration because oh, gee, this one particular bit of line noise is critical to my workflow! And this repeats until they’ve turned their target into `vi`. If you want `vi` just use and extend `vi` and let the rest of us be. Personally, I only find it ergonomic when used with an HP 9000-300 HIL keyboard, which puts the escape key in an odd place, and with an ADM-3A because all of the design decisions the cargo-cult thinks are so ingenious are really just accommodations for that particular terminal’s inadequate keyboard. Hence why I use a Macintosh, and a Macintosh editor.