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Re:Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland by Ianvdl on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:19AM (#24290634)
As someone who uses Vim daily, I quite like this idea. I would customise it to mimic the original Vim bindings a bit more closely where possible though, to e.g. keep Ctrl-D as page down.

I'm not sure if this would be possible, but it would be fun to have customisable per-application bindings (based on the active window, probably) in addition to the set of global bindings. I can also think of minor cases where motions would be useful, like 3x alt-tab (i.e. 3gt) to switch to a specific application.

I wonder at what point the depth of the mode-ness will become too much, if you were running this, for example, with a vi-mode bash readline.

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Re:Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland by ceda_ei on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:04AM (#24290826)
> e.g. keep Ctrl-D as page down.

I tried doing the same using xdotool by binding Ctrl+F<something> to PageDown but for some reason it didn't work for some reason and I didn't investigate enough.

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Re:Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland by addcninblue on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:16AM (#24290906)
I believe a possible reason is that the OP used xkb, which if I'm not mistaken is lower level than xdotool (so xdotool would not suffice)
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Re:Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland by ceda_ei on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:34AM (#24291001)
I am the OP. What I tried was something along these lines.

e.g. to get w in normal mode to send Ctrl+right, I did the following.

1. Bind w to F14 in normal mode.

2. In i3 config, add `bindsym 0xffcb exec xdotool key ctrl+Right`

If I simply ran the command (`xdotool key ctrl+Right`) in normal mode, it would work but it didn't work via a binding.

This was infact the initial idea behind all this but after quite some testing xdotool turned out to be unreliable so I repurposed it as a shortcut layer.

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