Re: Discuss: Retire vim mode?

On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 7:38:50 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: I put an enormous amount of work into Leo's feeble vim mode. Embedding > pyvim into Leo would be worth any amount of work. > I have just updated #1235: use pyvim for Leo's vim mode

Re: Discuss: Retire vim mode?

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:28 AM gar wrote: Yes, pyvim is impressive. It is not as powerful as, say, neovim - but still > a good attempt to make yet another vim engine. The only possible issue I > see here - it is based on prompt_toolkit >

Re: Discuss: Retire vim mode?

Yes, pyvim is impressive. It is not as powerful as, say, neovim - but still a good attempt to make yet another vim engine. The only possible issue I see here - it is based on prompt_toolkit which may be bounded to some exotic api. But if

Re: Discuss: Retire vim mode?

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:02 AM gar wrote: > > if thinking about saving vim mode in leo - then need to think how to > greatly enhance it. which is really may be done only with injecting of > almost-full-featured vim engine like pyvim > . > I didn't know

Re: Discuss: Retire vim mode?

vim mode has a very huge disadvantage that it also tried apply itself when outline were edited. this is very uncommon and inconvenient. i also recently looked through the supported commands in vim mode - too a few. one will be always stumble when using it. if thinking about saving vim mode in leo

Re: Discuss: Retire vim mode?

On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 5:52:55 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: Important: I'm talking about vim *mode* (@bool vim-mode), *not* the vim.py > plugin. The vim plugin is here to stay, although it should be improved. > > Terry and Kent have voted with their feet, and I am grateful to gar for

Discuss: Retire vim mode?

Important: I'm talking about vim *mode* (@bool vim-mode), *not* the vim.py plugin. The vim plugin is here to stay, although it should be improved. This would be the fourth or fifth time (at least) that a major feature has been retired. All previous retirements have ultimately improved Leo.