Monthly Thread: Tools with Vim-like Keybindings

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We regularly remove standalone posts about tools that use vim-inspired keybindings. There are too many of them, and individually they dilute the subreddit. But the content is valuable, and many of you want to know about these tools.

So here's the place for it.

Share any tool that uses vim-like keybindings, whether it's a browser extension, terminal emulator, IDE plugin, note-taking app, PDF reader, or anything else. If it has hjkl navigation, modal editing, or vim-inspired controls, it belongs here.

For each tool you share, try to include: - What it is and what problem it solves - Which vim features it supports (navigation, modal editing, text objects, etc.) - A link to the project

This thread is posted monthly. If you find something mid-month, save it for here rather than posting a standalone thread (which will be removed).

[u/kruseragnar]

hygg
A simple tui document reader with vim like navigation and text selection
https://github.com/kruseio/hygg

[u/troyvit]

pyradio is a streaming radio client that uses #G and hjkl navigation.

[u/vishless]

Godot (game engine) has a neovim plugin

[u/Similar-Ad-3956]

Yazi - tui file system browser

[u/toddestan → u/Similar-Ad-3956]

The absolute best part of Yazi, at least for me, is the ability to bulk rename files using a Vim buffer.

[u/pibarnas → u/toddestan]

Didn't know that. Thanks!

[u/chask]

Vimny, a vim-teaching dungeon crawler that teaches nearly every command - far more complete than most games!

https://github.com/chkiss/Vimny

[u/spaceLem]

RStudio, OverLeaf, and Obsidian are my favourite three.

[u/kronik85]

Picked up a codex sub and was presently surprised the cli has vim motions.

[u/Over_Salary_2599]

Vimium (browser extension) Logseq (personal knowledge base/notes app)

[u/superdumsuhi → u/Over_Salary_2599]

vimium c is amazing 

[u/juggalojedi]

Joplin desktop has vim bindings built in, and you can get a vim editor plugin for tiddlywiki

[u/vishless → u/juggalojedi]

Joplin terminal app has a vim like keybinding

[u/Dalik98]

Zathura: PDF Reader, Tridactyl: Firefox extension that let's you browse with vim binds.

[u/habarnam → u/Dalik98]

I've been keeping an eye on the Glide Browser. It's a Firefox fork with a built-in keyboard focused navigation instead of needing extensions like Tridactyl.

[u/RecuCar]

ncspot: a Spotify client for the terminal

[u/pastrufazio → u/RecuCar]

Thanks! I HATE the interface of Spotify and I Iove mpd and his clients. This looks perfect.

[u/RecuCar → u/pastrufazio]

Tip: '?' shows help, which is basically the keybindings. These can be customized in ~/.config/ncspot/config.toml. I remapped quit, clear, delete to use the key + Shift, to avoid accidents. Check the Keybinding documentation

[u/flagboi747]

LF - another terminal file browser

[u/nczungx]

Sioyek. Kinda like Zathura but more features for academic readers.

[u/Wheelthis]

Frotz - engine for playing text adventure games that use Z-Machine architecture, e.g., Zork and Hitchhiker’s Guide.

“rlwrap dfrotz” respects .inputrc, where you can set vi mode.

[u/hey_hu]

LazyGit (tui) uses hjkl navigation

[u/ecky--ptang-zooboing]

Obsidian note-taking app has a nice VIM plugin

[u/vishless → u/ecky--ptang-zooboing]

Joplin has this too

[u/whitakr → u/ecky--ptang-zooboing]

Yep I use this too

[u/Locky0104 → u/ecky--ptang-zooboing]

the recent Vim Motions plugin is a game changer coming from vim-rc support

[u/Z3R0_C00L_007]

ZenNotes

[u/xGoivo]

squix - a command line tool to manager and run SQL queries

(Full disclosure, I'm the project's mantainer)

[u/JahdooWallah]

Firefox, bash, eMacs (viper mode), vscode, eclipse…and many more ides.

[u/cookiecutter73]

Visidata

[u/agenttank]

Qutebrowser - a web browser

[u/flagboi747 → u/agenttank]

This is the way

[u/subversion16]

• Surfingkeys, plugin for Firefox. 
• Kitty with vi mode.

[u/whitakr → u/subversion16]

Omg I didn’t know Kitty had a vi mode

[u/edcculus]

Obsidian

[u/cainhurstcat → u/edcculus]

Yeah, the Vim mode in Obsidian is quite good, and there are also the community plugins to enhance your experience, like Vimrc Support, and Vim Toggle. The former adds the possibility of having an Obsidian-specific .vimrc file, and the latter allows you to have a key for quickly turning Vim mode on/off.

If you are like me who wants the capabilities of an WYSIWYG editor for Vim, check out the community plugin Editing Toolbar. You can easily add formatting like bold, italic, colors, code blocks and so many more things to your text. I absolutely love this one as Vim combo.

[u/superdumsuhi → u/edcculus]

https://github.com/saberzero1/motions

much better vim support with parity tests to neovim, surround, oil, lua config, etc

[u/cainhurstcat → u/superdumsuhi]

Ok wow, this plugin is really insane! So many features, I think I have to take a week of vacation to get me into it

[u/Cyb3rD4d]

k9s for managing kubernetes clusters

[u/Accomplished-Bus3382]

Firenvim: A Neovim plugin that, when used in combination with the browser plugin in Firefox or Chrome, opens up an instance of Neovim, with your configuration, that let's you input text. It's awesome. 

[u/Risk_exe]

Duckduckgo search engine and X (twitter) have jk bindings

[u/anrawines]

Vieb - browser,
newsraft - rss