homesick-vi-everywhere

A Homesick castle to use vi keybindings everywhere.

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Need vi mode right away? Hit M-C-j (Meta then Control then j). On Ubuntu, Meta is the right Alt key. On the Mac, you might have to hit the keys all at once (after configuring Meta in your terminal, typically as Option). More info... (🚫 broken link as of 2019-07-31. An archived version is available. Note that this can be disabled.)

This is temporary, but useful sometimes, like when using a Docker container.

What Is It?

Problem

Many programs default to emacs keybindings, but your favorite editor is vi. You would like to have bash, irb, etc. to have the same keybindings you've come to know and love.

Solution

Use homesick-vi-everywhere, a package of dotfiles to enable vi keybindings wherever possible.

This will allow you to use vi keybindings in:

• bash
• coffee
• irb (Ruby)
• mysql
• node
• python
• sqlite3
• tmux
• ...and others that use GNU readline

Installation

It's the same as any other Homesick castle (keep in mind that you can have more than one). Here are the basics:

gem install homesick
homesick clone benjaminoakes/homesick-vi-everywhere
homesick symlink homesick-vi-everywhere

If you want to modify your shell so that vi is used in more cases, source vi-everywhere like so:

source "$HOME/.vi-everywhere/bash.d/init.sh"

And for tmux, add this line in ~/.tmux.conf:

source-file "$HOME/.vi-everywhere/tmux.conf"

Please refer to the documentation for Homesick for more information.

Updating

Like with installation, it's the same as any other Homesick castle:

homesick pull benjaminoakes/homesick-vi-everywhere

Contributing

If you run into an issue specific to this project, please create an issue on GitHub.

Pull requests to add or improve vi keybindings for more programs are welcome!

License

Copyright (C) 2013 Benjamin Oakes

This program is licensed under GPLv2. See LICENSE for a copy.