[HN Gopher] Win-Vind: Become an instant ninja in operating Windo...
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Win-Vind: Become an instant ninja in operating Windows at the speed
of thought
Author : philonoist
Score : 105 points
Date : 2021-12-12 17:13 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| Datagenerator wrote:
| Can you remove the spyware and telemetry too?
| kevmo314 wrote:
| This is awesome. Vimium has been such a productivity boost that I
| actually dreaded leaving the browser. Now I can get that
| everywhere!
| twobitshifter wrote:
| Another less capable option is the cool Vim autohotkey script.
| https://github.com/rcmdnk/vim_ahk
| xupybd wrote:
| I opened the link just to try and understand the title.
|
| If you came to the comments looking for the same thing, I'd
| summaries as:
|
| Vim key bindings for Windows navigation
| qnsi wrote:
| is there something like this for mac?
| sogen wrote:
| Vimac offers some of the functionality, like hints
| hagonzalez94 wrote:
| Is there something like this for Linux / xfce?
| rkagerer wrote:
| Can someone explain what this does, for audiences unfamiliar with
| Vim?
| thoraway66 wrote:
| It abstracts windows desktop interaction into vim key binds
| [deleted]
| lordgrenville wrote:
| It's said about Vim that it lets you edit text "at the speed of
| thought", because navigating documents, making edits and
| running commands are all available within the interface via a
| small set of keyboard commands. There are browser extensions
| that enable a similar interface within a browser: Vim
| navigation keys, a command mode for e.g. bookmarking or
| searching, every link being clickable with the keyboard. This
| provides the same interface for Windows.
| neilv wrote:
| Making open source for Microsoft lock-ins would seem to increase
| the number of people using Microsoft lock-ins.
|
| Whether because it makes the lock-in more tolerable so that
| people don't switch, or it placates a developer revolt, or
| network effects when one person is swayed and then they do their
| startup as a Microsoft shop rather than a Linux shop, or network
| effects when the next developer is inspired to also make a lock-
| in more appealing, etc.
|
| A spoonful of sugar helps the rat poison go down.
| Karunamon wrote:
| Is this kind of haughty, stallmanesque middlebrow dismissal
| really necessary anytime someone writes an application for the
| most popular desktop OS on the planet?
|
| Please stop. You're not helping. This is an ideological
| flamewar that's been going on for decades, with nothing to be
| gained by rehashing it again.
| goldenkey wrote:
| The difference is, this is a developer tool. So OPs comment
| is relevant.
| criddell wrote:
| I think comments like the one at the top of this thread
| ultimately hurt open source more than it helps it.
| a_t48 wrote:
| So...Windows developers shouldn't make tools that improve
| their productivity?
| erulabs wrote:
| It's like a HN comment version of "we should improve
| society somewhat" (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-
| should-improve-society-som...)
| robertlagrant wrote:
| Not really.
| natpalmer1776 wrote:
| Except not every developer is a founder. Some developers
| simply work in the environment they're given, and tools
| like this make their life easier. On top of that, I know
| several non-developers who would likely jump on this tool.
|
| Database administrators, network architects, and systems
| administrators to name a few are all technically savvy
| power users who may be more at home in a Linux environment.
| neilv wrote:
| It was an objective assessment and explanation. No need to
| turn the dialogue to flamewar.
|
| The tech adoption dynamics are still going on, along with all
| the effects of that.
| Karunamon wrote:
| Comparing software released for operating systems you
| dislike with "rat poison" is weapons-grade flamebait and
| wholly unnecessary.
| neilv wrote:
| Sorry, I thought the catchy humor at the end would put it
| in different terms, but I agree it was unnecessary, and
| wish I hadn't done that.
|
| At the same time, I think, if the joke at the end didn't
| raise it to the level of flamewar, directing "haughty"
| and "middlebrow" at another poster would progress more in
| that direction.
| sva_ wrote:
| As a Linux user, I'm kind of jealous of
|
| 1) Easymotion navigation in any GUI
|
| 2) seemingly vim emulation in arbitrary input fields?
|
| Does something like this exist on Linux?
| fish45 wrote:
| at first I was jealous of the GUI navigation, but then I
| realized I don't use any GUIs other than firefox, for which
| there are plenty of plugins.
|
| The Vim emulation is pretty cool, the closest alternative I can
| think of is https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim, but I
| disabled it a while ago for being kind of clunky
| zhengyi13 wrote:
| Tiling window managers will generally give you re-bindable keys
| for any and all window navigation. In fact, for the emacs folk,
| there's already stumpwm, in which your window manager is
| configured and controlled from a running emacs instance.
|
| Arbitrary text field input, not so much. Sounds like a project
| :)
| sva_ wrote:
| I do use a tiling WM (i3). I was specifically referring to
| the easymotion[0]-like navigation shown in the video.
|
| What annoys me most about windows is, that you have to resort
| to using the mouse for many things, and selecting things
| using something like easymotion seems powerful.
|
| [0] https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
| Arcsech wrote:
| I think you mean exwm, which is the window manager that runs
| in emacs. StumpWM is written in Common Lisp and is stand-
| alone, although folks often interact with it via emacs.
| KingMachiavelli wrote:
| A lot of applications are using readline [1] as the backend
| for their text input or a readline like implementation.
| readline can/should provide emacs and vi-like controls.
|
| [1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readline.3.html
| hagonzalez94 wrote:
| Thanks for making windows usable
| dbalatero wrote:
| Love to see this windows project! If anyone wants some MacOS Vim
| functionality everywhere, I have a small library I maintain for
| that: https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
| saulrh wrote:
| The real killer feature for this is probably that it makes every
| textbox a little vim instance. Thanks to things like slack,
| discord, gmail, HN et al, I spend more time typing into OS
| default textboxes than I do managing windows, or some days even
| typing into emacs, and it'd be _really_ nice if I could get all
| my fancy features in all of those input lines and browser
| textboxes. There used to be a way to do this on linux, but it 'd
| bit-rotted last time I checked and I doubt there's been any
| progress on it for wayland.
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