questions around vim functionalities

[jerabaul29]

Hi,

I have been redirected here from https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/4292 .

From the discussions there:

"

• some vim commands are not available; for example, if I do 10 a - ESC, that only inserts one -, not 10
• it is only possible to navigate the current prompt line, not what is above. For example, in a situation like:

  $> some_command
  some_interesting_output_1 some_interesting_output_2
  $> my_prompt_is_here

  I cannot navigate in vim-mode to copy some_interesting_output_2 as if the whole terminal was a single file that I navigate with vim; any idea if this is attainable? :) "

I was wondering: are these limitations of the present repo (and if so, could the functionalities be added?), or is it a limitation of how Xonsh uses the prompt-toolkit? :)

[jonathanslenders]

Hi @jerabaul29,

To answer the first question: repetition of inserted text is not implemented. Also the . (dot) operator is not implemented. It can be done. I think there were some proposals for the . operator, but I never got around reviewing/merging that.

Navigating to a previous prompt or its output is beyond the scope of this library. There is nothing really meaningful we can do there.

Jonathan