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IRC Clients with VI Keybindings?
Pilchie asks: "Just wondering if anyone knew of a decent IRC client that supports
VI style keybindings. ircII is now just about the only application
I commonly use that doesn't support them, and it would be great if I
could find an IRC client that does. After spending hours searching on
both Google and Freshmeat, I have been unable to come up with anything."
vi have a built in IRC client?
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
Vi != emacs
Jordan Bettis
``Wherever you go, there's another stupid sigfile quote.''I don't really see the translation, or how you could be more productive if you had the VI bindings. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I honestly don't think that it would translate.
I didn't intend for this to be a troll, please do not view it as one.
There seems to be some discussion over on vim.org about an IRC channel (called #vim). Perhaps someone on that channel might have a solution.
It is called a MOUSE.
Learn to use it, as its the way of the future.
If you think we will be using non-Gui apps in the future of computers, you are sadly sadly mistaken.
The #vim channel is on IRCnet.
There is an IRCnet server list on www.vim.org here.
Just because an app has a GUI, it doesn't mean you have to use a mouse for it to be useful...
Even VIM has a GUI, but you can still do everything from the keyboard (and it's quicker once you know the keys).
either he's too cheap to get a mouse, or too lazy to move his arms...
or he has one arm...
may we ask why you would need vi style bindings? there may be an easier work around from that.
Runnin' On Empty
So many posters demand to know why vi key binding are so important. For some reason people seem to forget that vi-like keybindings are not out of place or unusual for command-line interfaces.
The readline library supports vi-like keybindings. As a result, most of the command-line operated free software I use works that way. Put set editing-mode vi in your .inputrc and be happy.
So please stop asking silly questions about why vi's input method is useful. I for one would like to see some relevant answers in this thread instead of a bunch of Windows slaves wondering why can't all just use the mouse. ^_^
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Look for tirc. It's alpha, but if you can get
it to work, it's great.
If there was such a thing, I for one would immediately use it. It's not rare to smash my esc-key in my irc-client and mutter "bugger" or something alike. Having vi-bindings in one's client would make writing text so much faster that I wonder why no-one has implemented it yet. I guess there will be one quite soon, though. Someone significant must read this post.
irssi uses readline.
There are a number of IRC client packages for emacs (of course) that I've tried... (erc and ZenIrc) and emacs does support various VIP and VIPER modes that give you vi key bindings - you may well be able to combine the 2, but you may equally well consider this a little OTT...
T
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best
I'm not exactly sure where in an irc client vi keybindings could even be used, but if it for copy & paste open up you irc client in a screen (let's face it, most people probably do anyway). That allows you to CTRL a ESC into copy mode, in which you can mosey around using vi keys, mark some text with space, then paste it with CTRL a ]
What were the skies like when you were young?
Esc is ctrl-[. Ctrl is on the caps lock. Hands never leave home row hitting escape, just play a pinkie chord. Happy vi user. I have never met anyone else who does this but I am personally ecstatic about it.