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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net > Email: janina at rednote.net > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
