All,
Is there a way to use vi cursor key bindings in Textmate?
Sorry for the newbie question. I've just converted over to the Mac, Textmate, etc.
Thanks,
-- Tim
Tim Wolters Chief Technology Officer Collective Intellect http://www.collectiveintellect.com
On 1/9/06, Tim Wolters tim@collectiveintellect.com wrote:
Is there a way to use vi cursor key bindings in Textmate?
Do you want really the original vi cursor key bindings? I guess that is not possible due to complete different philosophy of vi and TextMate.
Thomas
Tim Wolters wrote:
All,
Is there a way to use vi cursor key bindings in Textmate?
While I also believe that vi cursor key movements are really useful, I don't think it will work in TextMate. It would have to implement two different modes (insert and command). While this may work for a text based editor, it really doesn't work for a GUI editor, especially if it is not built from the ground up with this philosophy.
Jeroen.
PS. While vi is a notable exception, using modes in applications is really a bad interface design.
Tim,
What I've adopted is a kind of quasi-vi key bindings for the cursor movement. That is to say, changing the caps lock key to control and using cursor keys (and others!) with the control key. This is a big change from the philosophy of vi (is this more or less what emacs does? I've never used it), being only one mode, but I've grown very comfortable with it.
David
On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Tim Wolters wrote:
All,
Is there a way to use vi cursor key bindings in Textmate?
Sorry for the newbie question. I've just converted over to the Mac, Textmate, etc.
Thanks,
-- Tim
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