vibe, a line-editor with vi-compatible keystrokes

covici at ccs.covici.com covici at ccs.covici.com
Wed Jul 31 02:42:01 EDT 2013


I don't thinkex or vim -e uses the cursor at all, or even ncurses.  I
have used both vim and ex successfully with speakup -- you just have to
silence the window where it reads out the position.

pj at pjb.com.au wrote:

> Devon Stewart wrote:
> > Does vim have a line-editor mode?
> 
> It depends what you mean; there is, like I say,
>   vim -c 'set lines=2'
> but it's still a curses app, so it still speaks voluminous garbage
> and takes over the whole screen so you can't use a screen-reader
> to see what's been happening. Might as well use vim.
> I don't think vim has any non-curses modes.
> These days ex is usually a symlink to vim -e which is still
> a curses app; anyway, then you should be using edbrowse.
> 
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Hmmm, but one can do this all in vim already.
> 
> Oh yes, vibe is only ever going to be a small subset of vim.
> But vim speaks lots of garbage, and takes over the whole screen etc.
> 
> I'm still fixing lots of vibe bugs within one version number,
> I'll become more disciplined later...
>   http://www.pjb.com.au/blin/free/vibe
> 
> Peter
> 
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