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

Wed Jan 26 12:37:12 CET 2011

2011-01-25 20:03 Tim Harper:
> 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.

+1

However, I have a dual Emacs/vi background anyway (used to use Emacs for
"large" things and vi for "small" things), so I could well imagine that
die-hard vi users would prefer vi-keys-in-minibuffer.  I presume this
discussion is about what should be the default behavior, not whether
vi-keys-in-minibuffer should be dropped completely.

Cheers,

Christoph

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