Vimium: How to change key mappings for caret moving?
can I change the HJKL to NEIO in Vimium?
because I use the Colemak keyboard layout.
couldn't find anything in the docs.
wis
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@wis I haven't used Colemak, but I believe that simple key remapping should work for you. Take a look at Custom Key Mappings in REAME.
ris58h
on 2 Jul 2018
thanks for trying to help @ris58h
I should have mentioned Visual mode, I don't think it's an implemented feature to remap hjkl or any keys in different modes.
I think they should be automatically remapped in all layers.
wis
on 2 Jul 2018
They seem to be hardcoded. Please add commands for them they can be remapped.
fugounashi
on 18 Jul 2018
The keys for visual mode and caret mode are indeed currently hard coded.
smblott-github
on 10 Aug 2018
Would be nice to go into Caret mode with a single key press. I think one would like to start with Caret mode instead of Visual mode. Also uncertainty whether it will start in Visual or Caret mode with v does not help.
xged
on 10 Feb 2019
If there is an existing selection (even a zero-length selection), then you get visual mode, otherwise caret mode.
smblott-github
on 10 Feb 2019
@smblott-github Oh, I see how it works now. That all makes sense. Maybe expand what "selection" means (mouse click) in https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki/Visual-Mode.
xged
on 10 Feb 2019
@smblott-github Just wanted to bump this issue. I successfully remapped the scrolling keys from hjkl to jkl枚 (german keyboard) but the mapping doesn't work for moving the caret in visual / caret mode. This is really unfortunate since constantly switching between the two mappings is rather confusing.
Anudin
on 19 Apr 2019
+1
teutat3s
on 30 Apr 2020
Here's an AD about my customized Vimium - gdh1995/vimium-c - it has both global remapping and pre-mode remapping.
By default, a mapkey rule takes effects in all modes (even FindMode and Vomnibar); and you can also map a same key to different keys in different modes, by adding a mode-id suffix. For example, mapkey <f:o> <f2> will only make Vomnibar treat f as <f2>.
Here're some available mode IDs: Insert = "i", Link = "l", Omni = "o", Find = "f", Visual = "v" and Marks = "m". For NormalMode, there's no ID character.
Its wiki about all mapkey usages is https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/wiki/Use-in-another-keyboard-layout#mapkey-directive
gdh1995
on 30 Apr 2020
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Here's an AD about my customized Vimium - gdh1995/vimium-c - it has both global remapping and pre-mode remapping.
By default, a
mapkeyrule takes effects in all modes (even FindMode and Vomnibar); and you can also map a same key to different keys in different modes, by adding a mode-id suffix. For example,mapkey <f:o> <f2>will only make Vomnibar treatfas<f2>.Here're some available mode IDs: Insert = "i", Link = "l", Omni = "o", Find = "f", Visual = "v" and Marks = "m". For NormalMode, there's no ID character.
Its wiki about all
mapkeyusages is https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/wiki/Use-in-another-keyboard-layout#mapkey-directive