Vim style movement

[IndianBoy42]

Is it possible through configuration to make the movement vim style (for example like alacritty's ctrl+shift+space)

[yurikhan]

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.

[IndianBoy42]

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

[yurikhan]

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.

[storopoli]

Any new on this?

The most important stuff would be:

v to start selecting, V to select whole lines at a time

[yurikhan]

Are you volunteering to implement that?

[storopoli]

No, I am not proficient in Python. Just that alacritty does this so elegantly.

[yurikhan]

Then I have no news for you, sorry.

[tigerjack]

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.