On 4 July 2013 05:52, Mantas <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting ping (2013-07-03 21:49:15) >> not sure whywe don't borrow the same g; keyfrom vim? :D > > I agree with ping about vim compatibility in key bindings. Maybe it is > possible to have separate key binding layouts, one compatible with vim, > other same as is now in ranger. > > Vim has been around for very long time, so probably most ranger users > are more familiar with vim key bindings. Also vim has very good > documentation for every key binding, so ranger can reuse this excellent > documentation with minor changes. Vim's key bindings made big influence > to many other programs, including ranger...
I'm not sure it can. They're very different programs. > So vim compatibility for key bindings is good thing, but this should not > stop ranger for introducing other innovative or just different key > bindings. So my suggestion to have both through key binding layouts. > Official ranger distribution could include both layouts, with ranger's > enabled by default, and vim layout can be changed with just one switch: > > :set keybindings=vim Ranger seems to just splurge on all the keybindings at once. In a way that's good, but I find it irritating if all the good keys are taken with duplicates of other things. Hence this idea is actually quite appealing to me. (For example, I don't use "hjkl" navigation and they're good keys.)
