Feature Request: Vim Motions

[bernborgess]

How feasible is it to add the vim motions feature? Some web editors support it like replit has these keybinds option:

It would widely improve the usability of the web editor, and VS Code has plugins for it VSCodeVim VSCode Neovim

[joneugster]

Would that be adding https://github.com/brijeshb42/monaco-vim ?

The underlying editor is a "monaco editor", so one cannot simply "install" vscode extensions.

[joneugster]

Looking at this again, I think monaco-vim states it is not compatible with vite (which we use instead of webpack).

Realistically, I don't think I will look at this, but if a volunteer wants to, I'm happy to provide guidance and accept a PR!

[SnirBroshi]

Update: 3 months ago monaco-vim switched from Webpack to Vite, brijeshb42/monaco-vim@64a6610

Looking at the code, it looks like it creates a virtual CodeMirror editor and somehow translates CM's vim implementation back to Monaco, which sounds fragile but it seems to work.

[bernborgess]

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