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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by SkyMarshal on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:24AM (#13218319)
Funny I'm the exact opposite. Only on a MBPr for the hardware, otherwise would prefer Linux to OSX. Lightweight tiling window manager + Vim keybinds for all apps = super efficient. With OSX I actually have to use the mouse. How quaint.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by pmarreck on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:31AM (#13219254)
Customizing the Cocoa Text System (which in turn pretty much affects all apps with text input)

https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

This enables you to do what you're referring to in MacOS.

If you haven't yet tweaked these "not well-advertised" settings, this may indeed turn out to be a "this changes everything!" moment for you

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by bosie on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:19AM (#13218490)
how do you get vim keybinds in every app?
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by pmarreck on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:27AM (#13219241)
For OS X at least...

https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

If you haven't yet tweaked these "not well-advertised" settings, this may indeed turn out to be a "this changes everything!" moment for you

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by ake1 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:39AM (#13219621)
pretty much everything has a vi-mode these days. all shells, tmux, browser via extension (vimperator/vimium/cvim/surfingkeys) or by default (uzbl et al), wm by configuration or default (bspwm/i3/awesome etc.). intellij even has support for an .ideavimrc which surprisingly works quite well.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by SkyMarshal on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:34PM (#13223146)
Yup, this.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by j7ake on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:35AM (#13218986)
Also curious!
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by pmarreck on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:29AM (#13219249)
(dupe of other comment in same thread by me)

For OS X at least...

https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

If you haven't yet tweaked these "not well-advertised" settings, this may indeed turn out to be a "this changes everything!" moment for you

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by mateuszf on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:42AM (#13219302)
I guess he's picking the apps that support that - probably web browser via extension, and cli apps which often do that.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by dingdingdang on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:05AM (#13218870)
Script that stuff with Hammerspoon :)
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