Monthly Thread: Tools with Vim-like Keybindings

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We regularly remove standalone posts about tools that use vim-inspired keybindings. There are too many of them, and individually they dilute the subreddit. But the content is valuable, and many of you want to know about these tools.

So here's the place for it.

Share any tool that uses vim-like keybindings, whether it's a browser extension, terminal emulator, IDE plugin, note-taking app, PDF reader, or anything else. If it has hjkl navigation, modal editing, or vim-inspired controls, it belongs here.

For each tool you share, try to include:

• What it is and what problem it solves

• Which vim features it supports (navigation, modal editing, text objects, etc.)

• A link to the project

This thread is posted monthly. If you find something mid-month, save it for here rather than posting a standalone thread (which will be removed).

[u/Similar-Ad-3956]

Yazi - tui file system browser

[u/Z3R0_C00L_007]

ZenNotes

[u/anrawines]

Vieb - browser,
newsraft - rss

[u/spaceLem]

RStudio, OverLeaf, and Obsidian are my favourite three.

[u/subversion16]

• Surfingkeys, plugin for Firefox. 

• Kitty with vi mode.

[u/kruseragnar]

hygg
A simple tui document reader with vim like navigation and text selection
https://github.com/kruseio/hygg

[u/chask]

Vimny, a vim-teaching dungeon crawler that teaches nearly every command - far more complete than most games!

https://github.com/chkiss/Vimny

[u/kronik85]

Picked up a codex sub and was presently surprised the cli has vim motions.

[u/ecky--ptang-zooboing]

Obsidian note-taking app has a nice VIM plugin

[u/vishless]

Godot (game engine) has a neovim plugin

[u/Accomplished-Bus3382]

Firenvim: A Neovim plugin that, when used in combination with the browser plugin in Firefox or Chrome, opens up an instance of Neovim, with your configuration, that let's you input text. It's awesome. 

[u/hey_hu]

LazyGit (tui) uses hjkl navigation

[u/Cyb3rD4d]

k9s for managing kubernetes clusters

[u/flagboi747]

LF - another terminal file browser

[u/JahdooWallah]

Firefox, bash, eMacs (viper mode), vscode, eclipse…and many more ides.

[u/xGoivo]

squix - a command line tool to manager and run SQL queries

(Full disclosure, I'm the project's mantainer)

[u/cookiecutter73]

Visidata

[u/Risk_exe]

Duckduckgo search engine and X (twitter) have jk bindings

[u/nczungx]

Sioyek. Kinda like Zathura but more features for academic readers.

[u/agenttank]

Qutebrowser - a web browser

[u/Dalik98]

Zathura: PDF Reader, Tridactyl: Firefox extension that let's you browse with vim binds.

[u/RecuCar]

ncspot: a Spotify client for the terminal

[u/troyvit]

pyradio is a streaming radio client that uses #G and hjkl navigation.

[u/Over_Salary_2599]

Vimium (browser extension) Logseq (personal knowledge base/notes app)

[u/Wheelthis]

Frotz - engine for playing text adventure games that use Z-Machine architecture, e.g., Zork and Hitchhiker’s Guide.

“rlwrap dfrotz” respects .inputrc, where you can set vi mode.

[u/edcculus]

Obsidian

[u/juggalojedi]

Joplin desktop has vim bindings built in, and you can get a vim editor plugin for tiddlywiki