vibe, a line-editor with vi-compatible keystrokes

[Devon Stewart]

Does vim have a line-editor mode?

-Devon

On Jul 31, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:

> Hmmm, but one can do this all in vim already. OK, I confess, I didn't
> check every keystroke you mention, but I'm certainly using b w j k r x i
> a o O I and a host more all the time.
> 
> I did have trouble when my font was set for utf8. It's back to iso
> 8859-1 now. I'm thinking of trying -15 again, as I did find a cheat
> sheet for that recently.
> 
> Janina
> 
> pj at pjb.com.au writes:
>> Greetings.
>> 
>> Being an ageing vi-user, and since vi doesn't handle screen-readers well,
>> I've been writing a line-editor in Perl with vi-like keystrokes.
>> I think highly of edbrowse, but I do miss my h j k l, and being able
>> to move the cursor within the line with b and w and Left and Right.
>> It's called vibe (the VI-like Blind Editor)
>> although I wonder if that's too ungoogleable
>> and so perhaps vivi (Visually Impaired VI) might be better?
>> 
>> The aim is to work like vim -c 'set lines=2' except to not use curses,
>> so as to be in more control of which characters would be output to
>> the screen and in what order, and to use this control to achieve
>> a comfortable speaking interface under both speakup and yasr.
>> 
>> Anyway, it's approaching releaseability and you can try it out with
>>  cd /usr/local/bin
>>  wget http://www.pjb.com.au/blin/free/vibe
>>  chmod 755 vibe
>>  perldoc vibe   # read what manual there is :-)
>> 
>> It currently handles h j k l 5j ArrowKeys PageUp/Down { } 0 $ w b e :123
>> :1 Home :$ End /somestring /perlregexp[a-m]?\d+.txt$ J i I x p P dd d}
>> c C D !!fmt !}fmt dw d5w u Ctrl-R ZZ w n q wq
>> and many combinations of the above.
>> 
>> It is in its very early versions; there will be bugs, and some important
>> functions are still not implemented, such as r, R and :r filename.
>> Currently, the "u" undo-command only stores one level of history.
>> 
>> Helpful suggestions from fellow-vi-users gratefully received...
>> 
>> Regards,  Peter Billam
>> 
>> http://www.pjb.com.au      pj at pjb.com.au     (03) 6278 9410
>> "Follow the charge, not the particle."  --  Richard Feynman
>> from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949
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