zap-zsh/vim

⌨️ Vim plugin for zsh

vim.zsh

A simple vim plugin for zsh

Custom key bindings

A common habit of vim users is to re-map a key sequence to<Esc> in insert mode, to avoid having to reach far on the keyboard. You can do the same here by simply assigning a key binding to the env variable VI_MODE_ESC_INSERT: for example

export VI_MODE_ESC_INSERT="jk" && plug "zap-zsh/vim"

will escape back into normal mode upon pressing jk.

vim's Issues

cannot remap from viins mode

Thank you for the great work on zap!

I have replaced ohmyzsh vi-mode plugin with the current one, however I have noticed that with this one I cannot seem to define mappings in insert mode along the lines of

bindkey -M viins '<some mappings>' vi-cmd-mode

namely such mappings, although defined, seem to have no effect.

The use case I have is to re-define a mapping to escape back into normal mode (I presume this is quite a common use case for many who do not want to reach out to Esc far away in the upper left corner). Would a re-mapping like the above work for you (and perhaps I have some other settings that conflict, though I do not believe so, I have minimally reproduced it) or how do you suggest to go around it, otherwise?

P. S. Since the above is quite a common use case, why not exposing a variable to the user who could then set their favourite escape sequence? Something along the lines of VI_MODE_ESC_INSERT='...'?

Yank global clipboard

Reproduction

1. write text in the terminal
2. go to normal mode
3. go to visual mode
4. select some text
5. yank it (press y)
6. paste the content using system clipboard (on mac cmd-v)
7. the pasted content is not what I yanked

When going into visual mode and pressing y it seems to copy the content only in the "zsh vim" session, I can paste the content and it works but when I want to paste (using cmd-v) this content it does work,

Is it possible to yank the selected content into the system clipboard?
thanks!

No such key map "menuselect"

Can be fixed by adding zmodload -i zsh/complist above the keys in tab complete menu in the [vim.plugin.zsh] file:

...
zmodload -i zsh/complist
# Use vim keys in tab complete menu:
bindkey -M menuselect '^h' vi-backward-char
bindkey -M menuselect '^k' vi-up-line-or-history
bindkey -M menuselect '^l' vi-forward-char
bindkey -M menuselect '^j' vi-down-line-or-history
...

Allow for emacs style keybindings in insert mode (Ctrl-a & Ctrl-e)

Howdy!

I'd love if there was an option in this (or some snippet I can add to my config) to enable support for ctrl-e & ctrl-a keybindings. I know Esc 0 would work but it would be nice to be able to do this. Thanks for the awesome work