You like Vim? You love NeoVim? You like PVI.

A vim like editor, built on top of Textual with all nescessary features and key bindings.

Installation

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MuongKimhong/pvi-editor/master/install.sh | bash

Usage

• pvi . open current directory
• pvi mydirectory open mydirectory
• pvi myfile.txt open myfile.txt

There are some new key bindings to make things easier while coding, for example:

• to go to top of the file, instead of using <gg>, use <gt> (Go Top)
• to go to bottom of the file, instead of using <G>, use <gb> (Go bottom)
• to select all, instead of <gg><VG>, use <sa> (Select all)
• to selec current line, instead of <V>, use <sl> (Select line)

See key bindings for more details.

Key Binding

• <ctrl+b> show or hide sidebar
• <ctrl+q> switch focus between sidebar and editor
• <j> move down in sidebar if sidebar is focused
• <k> move up in sidebar if sidebar is focused
• <dd> delete file or directory in sidebar if sidebar is focused
• <aa> create new file or directory in sidebar if sidebar is focused

Commit and push code from editor

• <:git push origin branch_name "commit message"> commit current editing file and push code to branch_name
• <:push branch_name "commit message"> commit everything in project directory and push code to branch_name

Editor

• <j> move down

• <k> move up

• <h> move left

• <l> move right

• <i> enter insert mode

• <gt> go to the top of the file

• <gb> go to the bottom of the file

• <sa> enter selection mode and select all

• <sl> enter selection mode and select current line

• <v> enter selection mode

• <d> delete the selected text (only work in selection mode)

• <y> copy the selected text (only work in selection mode)

• <yy> copy the current line

• <dd> copy the current line and delete

• <p> paste the copied text at cursor location

• <ss> open search file dialog

• <:w> save file content (Normal mode)

• <:wq> save file content and quit PVI (Normal mode)

• <:q> quit PVI (Normal mode)