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Vi commands in all your Cocoa apps

Submitted by Merlin on February 5, 2007 - 1:50am.

Jason Corso - Vi Input Manager Plugin

Vi Input Manager seems like a godsend for Mac (or more accurately, Cocoa) users who have Vi commands permanently installed in their fingertips.

This bundle patches the Cocoa Text System to add a Vi-like command mode. After entering command-mode (typically, by hitting escape in Vi), ordinary Vi commands can be typed and the text field will be updated accordingly…

Right now, you should be thinking – “you mean the editor in XCode will behave like Vi?” Answer: Yes.

Reminds me it’s about time for another round of trying to learn Vim.

[ via: Vi Input Manager - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) ]

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I just tried using it...

Submitted by Fred (not verified) on February 5, 2007 - 10:12am.

I just tried using it again, and it doesn’t even implement yank! And that’s a command firmly in the “changing a keybinding” set. Using multipliers in any way outside of the grammar described on his website totally fails — you can’t do ‘2dw’, only ‘d2w’.

I think I could actually mistake this for a congealed salad.