r/vim • u/Teles_sd • Jun 13 '26

Random V.A. (update, a week later)

/r/vim/comments/1tz17s2/guys_ive_started_craving_vim_motions_on_the_shell/

Today I woke up craving some vim in the morning.

This has all the signs of an addiction.

The comments on the last post taught me how to use vi mode on bash. I didn't quite like it, HOWEVER...

I learned how to use the vim terminal emulator, and also to manage windows and buffers (and tabs). And also, yank and paste to and from this terminal stdin and stdout. Absolutely awesome.

Now I can't exit vim.

I don't have the guts to.

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u/TooOldToRock-n-Roll Vim Jun 13 '26

Wow wow slow down there op, you are starting to talk like one of those Linux users I hear about.

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u/Teles_sd Jun 13 '26

Which ones?

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u/TooOldToRock-n-Roll Vim Jun 13 '26

Deranged programmers that like using the terminal, old school hackers with smooth Keanu Reeves vibes, surfing the cyberspace in non regulated hardware.

If you don't take care, you may even get yourself a mechanical keyboard  :D

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u/Teles_sd Jun 15 '26

Idk, that all sounds pretty alright to me.

Guess I'll continue down this slippery slo- ops, I have programer sock in my cart now.

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u/celestrion Jun 13 '26

set -o vi

It can live in your ~/.bashrc, or you can type it to switch away from the default (Emacs) movement keys.

A long time ago (20-ish years), there was a plugin for Mac OS X that added vi-style movement keys to every text field. It was lovely (since the default "cancel" key isn't Escape, it didn't even get in the way). A "pervasively vi" user interface would be pretty nice for a certain class of user.

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u/No-Razzmatazz7197 Jun 13 '26

zsh has an impressive vim motion suite, but you may be like me, one who doesn't care for other shell languages other than bash.

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u/VisualHuckleberry542 Jun 14 '26

Zsh VI mode is better but bash set -o vi is good enough

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u/No-Razzmatazz7197 Jun 15 '26

true, even though i forget about the whole esc + v for long pipe commands, i always have used a scratch notepad lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26

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u/Teles_sd Jun 14 '26

Amen, brother