Re: Vi keybindings

Hi James,
               Actually, while there is plugin that enables people to
write their own keybindings, which is certainly useful, there are also
a whole set of VI (and emacs!) keybindings already built into AbiWord.

I haven't followed them or know how well maintained they are, but here
is a post from way back in 2000 that describes how to enable them.

http://abiword.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/December/0535.html

Here is the text from uber hacker Joaquin Cuenca Abela:

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There is a bug in the user faq

http://www.abisource.com/faquser.phtml#2.8
states that you can enable vi and emacs keybindings
pressing F12, and that is not more true (it was a
"bug").

Could somebody fix the faq? It should say something
like: "you need to hack your AbiWord.profile, adding
something like that:

<Scheme
        name="_custom_"
        KeyBindings="emacs"
        KeyBindingsCycle="1"
        />

These lines will enable the cycling of keybindings
with the F12 key, and sets the emacs keybindings by
default."

(but, of course, in english :)

Cheers,

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So if you put that code into your <username/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile
file, and press "F12" twice you should have VI keybindings.

Let us know if it works!

Cheers

Martin

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM, James Freer <jessejazza@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Having returned to doing programming recently using the Vi/Vim editor
> i was delighted to find that there is a plugin for Vi keybindings in
> Abiword. I don't regard myself as technical enough to offer services
> to Abiword development but hope there is a member on this list who is
> and would be prepared to PUSH for further development of this plugin.
>
> Years ago i used to find the Wordstar and Wordmaster combination good
> as one could do word processing and editing with the same commands.
> Abiword seems the only WP that one has got the same possibility with.
> I'm intending to use the Mutt email client with Vi editor for the same
> reasons. Key commands are so much quicker than the mouse.
>
> Anyone else interested?
>
> thanks
> james
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Received on Mon Feb 16 23:43:42 2009