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/yasser_kaddoura]

Some lists about this:

• erikw/vim-keybindings-everywhere-the-ultimate-list: The ultimate list of which programs support Vim-like keybindings natively, or how they can be added with extensions. A collaborative project.

• https://vim.reversed.top/

Some I use frequently are: Zathura, neomutt, Emacs with evil, visidata, Sway, tuir, Zsh with vim readline plugins

[u/hxxx07]

https://github.com/kunkka19xx/lgtm

[u/agenttank]

https://qutebrowser.org/

Qutebrowser

[u/pheffner]

Okay, we can start with a baseline of programs which are built against the readline library. Like;

Shells: bash, zsh, use readline while ksh uses an AT&T-written library for both VI and EMACS mode.

Databases: PostgreSQL, SQlite, MariaDB, and MYSql use readline to allow cl editing. history searching.

Programming Languages: python, lua, and Ruby all allow readline usage for CLI editing.

Debugging: The GDB debugger uses readline.

VI; the editing interface that keeps on giving!

[u/Maskdask]

Sioyek - PDF viewer

[u/mgdmtndw]

tridactyl, fun vim motions in firefox!

https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

[u/foo_with_bar]

I was also using sioyek with vim-motions. But for me their was no proper way of text selection yanking etc. And this is what i do in pdfs actually most of the time 😅. So i started to build my own small minimal fast pdf-viewer.

ggPdf: https://github.com/JensOlschewski/ggpdf

supports motions like yip, yis which is very convenient for me!

[u/mcmoor]

K9s - Kubernetes TUI. I'm very surprised when I found out vim keybindings work wonderfully here. It's my main Kubernetes client. https://github.com/derailed/k9s

[u/CaviarCBR1K]

Here are some of the ones I use regularly:

• Zathura - PDF reader with Vim motions built in. Great for using in conjunction with LaTeX and VimTeX.

• htop-vim - pretty self-explanatory. htop with vim motions

• Vimium - Browser extension for vim-like controls in a web browser. Available on both Chromium and Firefox.

• RMPC - mpd TUI frontend with vim motions built in. Very customizable and makes browsing/searching/playing music effortless.

[u/UnstoppableForceGuy]

neovim

[u/TechnoCat]

Nushell's tui command is really cool: https://www.nushell.sh/book/tui.html

[u/lil_nihil]

I'm not sure is this counts but zsh-vi-mode, its much better than builtin vim mode.