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VIM keys not working?

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#1

Version: Joplin 1.7.11 (prod, darwin)

Just curious: I did find how to activate VIM keys (in Preferences > Advanced) but they don't appear to work. Escape, j, k, l etc does nothing (except type those letters). There's no mode switching at all. I did hit "apply" when choosing the VIM mode in preferences, all other preferences appear to work just fine. Do I need to do something else? Did I miss something? Please excuse me if I screwed up in some newbie way and missed something.

Thanks in advance for any help! Much appreciated!

#2

Which editor are you using? I think vim keys only work with the markdown editor.

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#3

Aha! I should have tried that. I was using the other editor (WYSIWYG I guess)... Shame it doesn't work on that. I guess I can put in a request for the devs to add that to the other editor?

#4

Most likely not. They are not even supported in the markdown editor. The vim and emacs modes are provided as-is. They were never supported.

Btw, the documentation for the WYSIWYG editor states: Special keyboard modes "vim" and "emacs" are not supported.
But I agree, this is a bit ambiguous. We should say that they do not work.