Apps with vi-like behaviour?

ilembitov · 2010-02-20 18:33:50

Hi, forum. I was thinking about making a VIM-esque environment. That means, that I could use pretty much the same look-n-feel of VI. I just realised that one can actually use bash (or almost any sh, for that matter) in vi mode and have familiar keybindings as well as modular approach (insert/edit mode, etc). So what other apps can offer something similar?

Here is what I am aware of:

-zathura/aplvl

-cmus

-vimperator/vimprobable

-uzbl (?) but not surf

-vifm

I wonder if there is any way to make irssi and mutt (I know you can use vi as external editor in mutt, but that's not the point) have that kind of look'n'feel.

Cyrusm · 2010-02-20 18:40:24

more vim-like programs

calcurse is a great calendar app
nethack qualifies as vim-like I think
for a window manager I suggest xmonad (or really any tiling wm, or screen)

that's about all of the input I have in this matter.

renuvio · 2010-02-20 18:45:24

lynx

There is an option in this browser to activate keyboard input with "VI keys" too.

ilembitov · 2010-02-20 18:45:43

Cyrusm wrote:

more vim-like programs
calcurse is a great calendar app
nethack qualifies as vim-like I think
for a window manager I suggest xmonad (or really any tiling wm, or screen)
that's about all of the input I have in this matter.

I thought dwm actually has some sort of vi-like keybindings by default. Maybe I'm wrong, but I remember something like ^h/^j/^k/^l for switching between windows in default config.h

jasonwryan · 2010-02-20 19:00:58

dwm does use h-l by default...

tomd123 · 2010-02-20 19:51:27

I don't think it has any vim bindings, but it has the same philosophy as vim, for pdfs.
aur/mupdf
aur/mupdf-darcs

Gigamo · 2010-02-20 20:01:02

sup is a nice emailclient that uses vi-like bindings.

ilembitov · 2010-02-20 21:12:24

Gigamo wrote:

sup is a nice emailclient that uses vi-like bindings.

Looks more like gmail-like bindings (which, in turn are somewhat similar to vi). I guess pretty much the same can be achieved with mutt.

milomouse · 2010-02-20 23:49:57

Check out this thread, too: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89567 Though I've never really used vi too much.. more of a vim person so I'm not sure of any major differences in bindings. And yeah, mutt can easily be configured to have vi-like bindngs, and as far as the look.. I've never tried as I kinda like having the sidebar. Hmm, has me thinking though.. may be way of putting the bar at the bottom (or top, looking like tabs) and have them in rows. I'll mess around with this later.

w3m's movement (etc) are vi-like (or vim-like?). Also, Surf can have vi-like bindings you change the config before compiling. I guess this goes with about any program..

N30N · 2010-02-21 00:31:46

Gigamo wrote:

sup is a nice emailclient that uses vi-like bindings.

Also check Notmuch.

skanky · 2010-02-21 21:39:25

BASH(readline?) can be set to use vi-like bindings rather than emacs.

eldalion · 2010-02-21 21:41:32

For KDE users, kate supports a few vi(m) shortcuts.

Stefan Husmann · 2010-02-22 15:13:53

emacs has a viper mode.

bangkok_manouel · 2010-02-22 15:19:11

apvlv http://code.google.com/p/apvlv/
apvlv is a PDF Viewer Under Linux and its behaviour like Vim.

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