More keybindings for cycling through search results

[sij1nk]

Hi! Thanks for the plugin, I've been using it briefly and I think it will be a great fit for my workflow.

I'm wondering what you think about providing some additional keybindings for navigating the list of directories shown by the plugin. As a vim user, I'm not very fond of having to reach down for the arrow keys.

I am not familiar with zellij plugin capabilities, so I'm not sure how feasible some of these suggestions are, but these are the ideas I had:

• Tab to select next list item, Shift+Tab to select previous (Tab is often used for list navigation so I presume this would be immediately obvious to users)
• <modifier>N to select next list item, <modifier>P to select previous (more vim-like, but as zellij defaults to vim-like keybindings, I think this makes sense "thematically"; modifier would either be Ctrl or Alt, I guess)
• implement vim-like modal editing:
  • in insert mode, type stuff into the search bar
  • in normal mode, use "j", "k" to select next and previous (very familiar to vim users; could be expanded to cover more actions such as "gg", "G", "D", "U", ...)

flowchart LR
S@{ shape: dbl-circ, label: "Start" }
    S --- B
    A[Normal mode]-- [i] ---B[Insert mode]
    B-- [Esc] ---A
    A-- [Esc] ---X
    X@{ shape: dbl-circ, label: "Exit" }

Which approach would you prefer? I would be willing to submit a PR for this, but would like to hear your opinion first.

Thanks!

[laperlej]

So first of all, I just want to be clear that the current keybinds are meant to mimick the fzf command line tool and that will remain the default.

However the idea of having configurable keybinds or a vi-mode option is something we can totally add.

I definitely prefer the vim-like modal editing implementation, which users could turn on in the configuration.

[sij1nk]

That makes sense to me. I'll give that a go and get back to you once I get something working