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X-Apps [Text] Editor (Cross-DE, backward-compatible, GTK3, traditional UI)
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Feature request: vim keybindings #181

Open biffster opened 6 years ago

biffster commented 6 years ago 
 * Xed 1.4.6
 * Mint 17.2

Feature request - vim keybindings! xed is just about perfect - light, fast and easy to use. It just needs vim keybindings. Please add them sometime soon. Pretty please?

vlad0337187 commented 6 years ago

Why do Vim ones ? Seems, that they are non-intuitive.

I think would be better to stay with current ones (from gedit), make all them configurable.

biffster commented 6 years ago

Because I've been using vim since 1995, and my muscle memory has vim keybindings ingrained. I don't have to think about using the editor at all, and can instead focus on writing. I know that most people like the default key bindings, and that's fine with me, that's why I submitted this as a feature request. :)

Side note: You would be surprised at just how many people are vim folks, though. That's why a whole lot of other editors (Atom, Sublime, Kate, etc) include the ability to enable vim bindings.

vlad0337187 commented 6 years ago

@biffster , in such case, I think, it would be better to make keybindings configurable and to make several default presets (including VIM ones).