Persistent Vim Keybindings

mick · 2020-02-19T03:21:16.177Z

Hi,

I did not find anything regarding this, so I ask here.

I want to re-map a key which is perfectly fine and possible with

:map <key1> <key2>

But if I restart Joplin, these mappings are all gone.

So my question is: Is there a way to make persistent changes to the Vim settings somewhere?

Thanks in advance
mick

nickbrooking · 2020-02-28T14:31:18.214Z

I also am wondering about this, I just want to remap a few keys in vim mode.

MRog40 · 2020-02-28T17:11:46.482Z

This isn’t the best workaround, but as someone with a large vimrc that I have come to depend on, I just always use the external editor. I can easily go side by side with joplin and vim and it will still live update. It isn’t the best solution, but afaik it is the only workaround for now.

I doubt vimrc support will be added to joplin, as I have heard it said before that the developers are not concerned with making joplin a robust text editor, and that is why the external editor support is so good.

mick · 2020-05-04T19:54:54.004Z

Yeah, I use that. too. Just today I commented on another thread, that under these circumstances (having ones own full blown vim as external editor, and the internal one lacking all the features) I can’t see why there is an internal vim editor at all.

Gonna stick to the external one.

joeschmoe · 2020-09-21T15:39:14.781Z

I'd also like to be able to do this. Something as simple as :map j gj can help when editing large paragraphs

mick · 2020-10-26T17:00:33.261Z

Well now, as the external editor is broke, this would be a great feature

gunnarjakob · 2020-11-17T21:09:13.758Z

Has anyone found a way to persistently map keys for vim mode in the desktop app? Thanks!

rxliuli · 2020-11-19T00:02:50.043Z

Professional editors should include it, but joplin is not...

jonasw234 · 2021-03-19T17:42:50.305Z

This should be pretty easy to do with a plugin, similar to what Obsidian does (https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support/blob/master/main.ts; 99 SLOC).