Making Vim ubiquitous?

Posted by Hamish Downer on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Hamish Downer
Published on 2009-05-05T18:13:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 21:53 UTC
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The Pragmatic Programmer recommends that you should use one text editor for everything. My chosen weapon editor is Vim.

So I want to collect all the ways in which Vim (and the Vim keybindings) can be used and setting up your computer to make Vim work well. This includes how to embed Vim in your IDE, web browser, email client, command shell ...

But I don't want Vim tips - there are other questions for them. I want tips to get into Vim, or Vim mode. Though tips about Vim mode not in an editor would be allowed (e.g. tips for vi mode when using Bash).

Update: Going quite well so far, with ways to edit in Vim/gVim, or to get vi mode in Firefox, Safari, Thunderbird, many IDEs and command line applications, MS Outlook and Word. But I'm wondering if there are more. Particular applications I wonder about include

  • OpenOffice.org
  • KOffice
  • Kmail
  • Evolution
  • Internet Explorer
  • GIMP and Photoshop ... (only joking ;)

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