[Feature request]: Add vim-bindings to code editor

[paniash]

Hi!

Firstly, thanks a lot for making a project akin to Project Euler on problems from the scientific domain. I'm really enjoying it! I would love to see a vim-style binding support for the code editor if possible.

Thanks!

[ali-ramadhan]

Hi @paniash, thanks for the feedback!

We're just using CodeMirror for the code editor and it looks like CodeMirror does have a vim mode plugin (although it's unmaintained right now): https://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html

Not sure if it's easy for a user to enable vim mode for CodeMirror but either way I was hoping to upgrade to CodeMirror version 6 (https://codemirror.net/6/) but we should look into making the code editor more customizable so that users can configure it (and enable vim mode!).

[ali-ramadhan]

Looks like there's some discussion around porting the vim mode plugin to CodeMirror 6: codemirror/dev#79

[paniash]

Great! Thanks for the response. Looking forward to the update. :-)

[ali-ramadhan]

Ah let's leave the issue open until we have some way of adding vim mode to the editor :)

Just a side note but I remember Vimperator (http://vimperator.org/) allowing you to use Vim bindings everywhere on Firefox but it was discontinued a long time ago. They link to a list of alternatives (https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs#end-of-life-and-alternatives) which might not be as powerful though, and Chrome has Vimium (https://vimium.github.io/).

[paniash]

@ali-ramadhan No problem! btw Firefox has Vimium too! It goes by the name of Vimium-FF (I use it personally and it's the best so far among other alternatives that I've tried).

[ali-ramadhan]

Ah nice, I should look into it! I need to get faster at vim 🙃

So I guess Vimium doesn't give you vim mode in the code editor?

[paniash]

@ali-ramadhan It honestly is a rabbit-hole haha. It's to the point where all of my programs have vim bindings. Vimium does not give vim mode in the code editor unfortunately. There is another addon for it called firenvim (it's neovim only though), but it feels too much for me personally.

[paniash]

@ali-ramadhan I came across another addon called surfingkeys which (kinda) gives vim emulation in an editor (along with the niceties of vimium ofc).