Problem with vim commands (using :)

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Problem with vim commands (using :) #94

Closed mesalas closed 7 years ago

mesalas commented 7 years ago

Summary

I cant get any vim commands to work. eg: when I enter :/whatiwanttofind) I get Not an editor command ":/whatiwanttofind Similar behavior is seen for all commands I have tried. Otherwise the keybindings work fine eg: hjkl (for left down up right) and so on

Environment

[ ] OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.3
[ ] Browser : Firefox 52.0.1 (64-bit)
[ ] Jupyter version : 4.4.1
[ ] Revision of jupyter-vim-binding : 91de1d8

lambdalisue commented 7 years ago

commands are not defined except for saving

mesalas commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply.

commands are not defined except for saving

Fair enough, that explains it 😄 I have somehow missed that. is it possible to define them?

lambdalisue commented 7 years ago

Prob. yes. https://codemirror.net/doc/manual.html#vimapi said defineEx can define ex command but I have not tried so not sure.

mesalas commented 7 years ago

Ok after looking through https://codemirror.net/keymap/vim.js I now realize what i'm doing wrong. Lots of the commands are in fact implemented, I just do not need the initial :. Eg if I want to search i just press / and not :/

this kinda fixed my problem. Thanks a bunch