wingillis/hammerspoon-vim-bindings

modal keybindings to give vim-like navigation for anything with a cursor

hammerspoon-vim-bindings

modal keybindings to give vim-like navigation for anything with a cursor

how to install

• download hammerspoon
• clone this repo
• place the vim_bindings.lua file in your ~/.hammerspoon dir which is created when you first run hammerspoon
• if you already have an init.lua file you've customized:
  • take a look at the supplied init.lua file to see how to initialize vim keybindings
• if you don't
  • copy the one in this repo into your ~/.hammerspoon dir

intructions on how to use

• use option + escape to enter vim-mode
• try out some basic navigation keys
• please see this blog post for some of the more advanced features and a list of what is not implemented

contributions

This software is likely very buggy, so use at your own risk!! If you'd like to improve upon the design please feel free to help out! This was a quick side-project so the architecture of implementation is likely flawed as well :).

hammerspoon-vim-bindings's Issues

THIS IS DOPE. Some feature requests:

In order in which they came up:

shift ^ = start of line
ctrl r = redo
ctrl b = up
ctrl f = down
/ = search
would be nice if it says "normal mode" when you get back into it
(advanced) q, @ = record, replay

I might jump in and add some of those too. Awesome work bruh

Normal mode bug for key '['

hs.eventtap callback error: /Users/wgillis/.hammerspoon/vim_bindings.lua:153: malformed pattern (missing ']')

It's assuming a regular expression - needs fixing

remapping

In vim I have remapped hjkl to jkl; (actually, to jklč, because I am using a foreign keyboard) to be able to retain the index finger on the J.

It would be nice to be able to remap keys in your application, too.