vibe, a line-editor with vi-compatible keystrokes

[Christopher Chaltain]

It's too bad you couldn't come up with an acronym for VIDI, you know as 
in Latin for "I see.", such as in Julius Caesar's famous quote "I came, 
I saw, I conquered.", or as he wrote it himself in Latin, "veni vidi vici"

On 07/30/2013 07:11 PM, pj at pjb.com.au wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Being an ageing vi-user, and since vi doesn't handle screen-readers
> well, I've been writing a line-editor in Perl with vi-like keystrokes.
> I think highly of edbrowse, but I do miss my hjkl, and being able
> to move the cursor within the line with b and w and Left and Right.
> It's called vibe (the VI-like Blind Editor)
> although I wonder if that's too ungoogleable and so
> perhaps vivi (Visually Impaired VI) might be better?
>
> The aim is to work like vim -c 'set lines=2' except to not use curses,
> so as to be in more control of which characters would be output to
> the screen and in what order, and to use this control to achieve
> a comfortable speaking interface under both speakup and yasr.
>
> Anyway, it's approaching releaseability and you can try it out with
>    cd /usr/local/bin
>    wget http://www.pjb.com.au/blin/free/vibe
>    chmod 755 vibe
>    perldoc vibe   # read what manual there is :-)
>
> It currently handles h j k l 5j ArrowKeys PageUp/Down { } 0 $ w b e :123
> :1 Home :$ End /somestring /perlregexp[a-m]?\d+.txt$ J i I x p P dd d}
> c C D !!fmt !}fmt dw d5w u Ctrl-R ZZ w n q wq
> and many combinations of the above.
>
> It is in its very early versions; there will be bugs, and some important
> functions are still not implemented, such as r, R and :r filename.
> Currently, the "u" undo-command only stores one level of history.
>
> Helpful suggestions from fellow-vi-users gratefully received...
>
> Regards,  Peter Billam
>
> http://www.pjb.com.au      pj at pjb.com.au     (03) 6278 9410
> "Follow the charge, not the particle."  --  Richard Feynman
>   from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949
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