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yurikhan
Vim style movement
Is it possible through configuration to make the movement vim style (for example like alacritty's ctrl+shift+space)
I do not know what Ctrl+Shift+Space does in Alacritty.
I do know vim has a whole chapter in its manual called motion.txt and spanning almost one and a half thousand lines, and that not including search commands.
I know some vim commands use a prefix key such as g. Kitty has a key1>key2 syntax for key sequences, but I have not tested if they work in kitty_grab. Likely not yet.
I also know most vim commands can be prefixed with numbers, and I am certain Kitty does not have a syntax for that.
Lastly, I know some people have had success setting up vim or neovim as a screen grabber / scrollback browser for Kitty, see here and there.
Well you don't have to support all of vims motions of course. Alacrittys vi mode just supports the basics
hjkl instead of arrows
wbe for moving by word
v to start selecting, V to select whole lines at a time
y to copy what has been selected
/? to search fwd/bwd
That's just about what alacritty supports
hjkl instead of arrows
Possible.
wbe for moving by word
Two of three possible, because kitty_grab does not implement two different ways to move forward by words.
v to start selecting, V to select whole lines at a time
Modal selection is not currently implemented. I might accept a patch.
y to copy what has been selected
Possible.
/? to search fwd/bwd
Search is not yet implemented. I have a wishlist item (#5) for search but it’s about emacs-style isearch rather than vim-style regexp search.
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Also, have you read the sample config? It should have told you everything that is possible.
Any new on this?
The most important stuff would be:
vto start selecting,Vto select whole lines at a time
No, I am not proficient in Python. Just that alacritty does this so elegantly.
Hey @IndianBoy42 , there's part of this is already implemented on kitty. For example, Ctrl+G let you go around the output of the last command (it uses less in the background I think). Some people (including me) are also using nvim as a scrollback pager to be able to select text. This is my configuration for example.
