vi keys in minibuffer (was Re: ido color problem when vimpulse is loaded)

Tue Jan 25 20:03:15 CET 2011

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Bach <sjbach at sjbach.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:55:55PM +0100, Štěpán Němec wrote:
>> Vegard Øye <vegard_oye at hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Thomas and Štěpán, do you consider the vi-keys-in-minibuffer behavior
>> > useful in itself, despite Viper's glitches?
>>
>> I imagine some people might like it, but not me. It was one of the first
>> things I disabled when starting to use Viper. It's somewhat similar to
>> shell vi emulation -- switching to and from insert mode for quick
>> single-line editing feels like more trouble than it's worth to me.
>
> FWIW, I do use the vi-keys-in-minibuffer behaviour (and also vi
> emulation in bash/zsh), but it's probably something I could learn to
> live without.

I don't use VI mode in the mini buffer myself. I find it also to be
more trouble than it's worth.