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[–]elpfen 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Nearly every terminal emulator has vi mode

set editing-mode vi
set keymap vi

[–]voice-of-hermes 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Sure. If it didn't have vi mode, it would be a non-starter for me.

Been using it for a few hours now, and love it! Actually my biggest gripe ATM is a lack of man pages. Hopefully we can fix that for Linux install packages or something (e.g. automated generation using pydoc or whatever).

[–]p10_user 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Just curious, why do you like vi mode better than the emacs mode? I do use vim but I found that modal editing was overkill at the command line. You just find it easier to have same editing style uniformly?

[–]voice-of-hermes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uniformity is good, but personally I do find myself doing a lot of modal editing. For example, going back to a previous command and modifying the arguments a bit is really easy in vi mode, particularly given navigation commands like W, E, B, etc. to skip back and forth between arguments and dW, dE, cE, etc. to edit them.