Better package

https://github.com/caleb-allen/VimBindings.jl is more complete, much more advanced and way ahead in vim emulation. I wont be working on this package anymore.

julia-repl-vi

Vi like bindings for julia-repl
Very barebones emulation of vim, probably always will be ...

Some vimulation is better than being an emacsochist.

NOTE : You have to hit esc twice to get into vi mode

h,j,k,l work as expected.
j,k move through history as well as up and down through multi line code in the REPL. Works only with default julia mode though when going through history. (if you go through history with k and encounter say ls which you typed out in shell mode. When you go hit i it will paste ls to julia mode and not shell mode)

Vim's number prefix dont work 2de will not delete run de twice.

Install

This isn't a package or module yet.If you want to try this out , get start.jl from this repo and run it with (include("start.jl")) in the repl. julia -i start.jl will not work.

Built on ReplMaker.jl and a minor tweak on some functions from LineEdit and REPL.

This needs the active repl to function. I havent figured out how auto-run things immediatly after the REPL starts. For now i have a function viminit() = include(path/to/start.jl)" inside my startup.jl and run viminit when after julia startup.

silly me ... ReplMaker.jl has instructions on how to do this. append this to your startup.jl

viminit() = include("/path/to/start.jl")
atreplinit() do repl
        try
            @async viminit()
        catch
        end
    end

Whats mapped

h,j,k,l : navigation

dd : clear line

de,db : delete next / previous word

e,b : goto next /previous word

i,a : go back to julia-mode

x : deletes a character

j,k do not do prefix completions .

j,k scroll up and down as-though the lines in history were the lines in a vim buffer.

Enter runs the line on the REPL buffer and sets the mode to julia mode.

Prefix Search works too.
If a something exists in repl buffer it goes up and down history only showing line starting with that something.

I dont understand a lot of the code in REPL.jl and LineEdit.jl myself. So somethings you see in my code might be a roundabout way to do things because i'm not aware of or dont fully understand the functions in REPL.jl and LineEdit.jl. Some day when i have the time i'll get around to writing a cleaner version of this. For now i get it to a point of working for my use.