Vimprov

Overview

An unreasonably opinionated attempt to merge the expressiveness of vim with the multi-cursor paradigm of sublime.

This aims to ease a few personal qualms that another vim newbie could presumably run into:

• Makes it very obvious that you are not in insert mode (changes the entire color palette)
• Insert mode behaves exactly like vanilla sublime
• No visual mode to confuse things
• Inversion of commands is easy (usually the caps version)

Commands

Special Command

• alt+space - toggle vimprov
• i - Enter insert mode
• . - Repeat last valid command

Actions

• g - go, cursor movement
• d - delete, delete text
• s - select, extend selection

Regions

Basic movement

• h - move left
• j - move down
• k - move up
• l - move right

Regions with a defined scope

• p - partial word - next partial word
• w - word - next white space
• e - end - end of line
• f - file - end of file

Regions defined by a character

• t - 'til - go to next inclusive
• u - until - next
• c - contained - bounded by - handles brackets (){}<>[]
• C - Contained - bounded by inclusive - handles brackets (){}<>[]

Next Steps

• Get undo/redo working
• Add commands for dealing with current selection, e.g. cut
• Improve robustness (especially redo command and contained)