On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cool!
> I use a tiny subset of Vim capability, probably most often used is '/'
> to find text, followed by
> substitution ':% s/text/replaced text/g
> '*' find next occurrence of this word
> '#' find previous occurrence
> yank and paste
>
> I've also gotten to depend on the alias of 'jj' to esc, allowing entering
> normal mode without leaving home keys.
>
> If these and a few others were implemented I'd probably work in vim-mode,

Excellent.  This is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for.
I'll do ii first.

> but I want to avoid the situation of having to learn 3 sets of commands:
> - Leo
> - vim
> - vim in Leo

I am amazed at how smooth the integration with vim with Leo turns out
to be.  Leo's non-plain keys don't seem to affect vim mode, and vice
versa.

> I think vim-mode will be great for bringing the benefits of modal editing
> to Leo users who don't know vim, experienced vim users will soon encounter
> something that doesn't work and either complain or abandon.

I hope they complain :-)  It should be dead easy to add almost any vim feature.

> of possible interest
> http://neovim.org/
> "First-class support for embedding
> Since Neovim will provide the interface to interacting with text,
> any program will be able to tap into this potential and be able
> to include Neovim commands right in the application"

Thanks for the link.

Edward

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