Yi Mode Vim Bindings?

[Jeremy Huffman]

Hi, I saw a reference that Yi mode supported Vim bindings but I haven't been able to get it to work. I'm using .12.1.3 on Linux. In Prefs I've checked the "Use Yi" box, but I don't see any difference in the editor after doing that. Is there something else also required to activate this?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[Hamish Mackenzie]

You have to build leksah with the -fyi option for it to work. Yi support is very basic in Leksah. It needs quite a bit of work to make it really usable. For instance Leksah's autocomplete will not work in Yi yet and the Yi minibuffers are not displayed (so : and / in VIM do not work yet).

I have recently refactored the TextEditor stuff (to use type families) and added some CodeMirror support (also incomplete though it's minibuffers do work).  CodeMirror also has VIM bindings.

https://github.com/leksah/leksah/tree/master/src/IDE/TextEditor

There are a lot of TODO comments in the Yi.hs or CodeMirror.hs (these need to be implemented to do the same thing as GtkSourceView.hs).  That would be a great place to start if anyone has time to help out.  The Yi minibuffers issue needs to be sorted in the Yi repo.

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[Jeremy Huffman]

Hi, thanks for the response. Sorry but I am new to Haskell and Cabal, and don't know what to do about this build error I get:

$ cabal install -fyi --reinstall
Resolving dependencies...
In order, the following will be installed:
leksah-0.12.1.3 +yi (reinstall) changes: dyre-0.8.11 added, yi-0.6.6.0 added
Warning: Note that reinstalls are always dangerous. Continuing anyway...
Configuring leksah-0.12.1.3...
Building leksah-0.12.1.3...
Preprocessing library leksah-0.12.1.3...

src/IDE/YiConfig.hs:30:8-26:
    Could not find module `Yi.UI.Pango.Control'
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
leksah-0.12.1.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1