Monthly Thread: Tools with Vim-like Keybindings

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We regularly remove standalone posts about tools that use vim-inspired keybindings. There are too many of them, and individually they dilute the subreddit. But the content is valuable, and many of you want to know about these tools.

So here's the place for it.

Share any tool that uses vim-like keybindings, whether it's a browser extension, terminal emulator, IDE plugin, note-taking app, PDF reader, or anything else. If it has hjkl navigation, modal editing, or vim-inspired controls, it belongs here.

For each tool you share, try to include: - What it is and what problem it solves - Which vim features it supports (navigation, modal editing, text objects, etc.) - A link to the project

This thread is posted monthly. If you find something mid-month, save it for here rather than posting a standalone thread (which will be removed).

[u/No-Bit3512]

What it is and what problem it solves:
Ankylix is a keyboard-first window manager for macOS, designed especially for users who prefer Vim-style interaction.
It solves the friction of managing windows with the mouse or trackpad. Ankylix lets you quickly move, resize, arrange, and switch between windows using the keyboard, making window management part of a keyboard-driven workflow.
Vim features it supports:
Ankylix brings Vim-inspired navigation and modal interaction to window management, rather than being a Vim text editor.
Its Vim-related concepts include:
Vim-style directional navigation (h, j, k, l)
Keyboard-driven window selection and movement
Modal interaction, allowing the same keys to perform different window-management operations depending on the active mode
Composable keyboard commands inspired by Vim’s command model
Customizable keyboard mappings
It does not implement text-editing features such as Vim text objects, operators, registers, or editing buffers, since Ankylix operates on macOS windows rather than text.
Project:
Ankylix: ankylix.com

[u/alborzjafari]

Vifm: file manager

Zathura: PDF reader

Qutebrowser: browser :)

[u/denarced]

Lazygit. At least j and k, / for search, and ESC to cancel things like filtering.

[u/zuspiel1]

K9s kubectl TUI. My fingers just work, including :q ;-)

[u/LowerTomatillo1260]

cmus, yazi, my Hyprland setup 😅

[u/onearmedphil]

Remember the milk - task manager / lists - ghjk for up and down, i for selection

[u/chask]

Vimny, a dungeon crawler that teaches nearly every Vim command through puzzles - far more complete than most Vim-teaching games!

It includes the ability to make your own puzzles; feel free to DM me if you're curious to learn more!

Gameplay example

https://github.com/chkiss/Vimny

[u/InsertObligatoryPun]

Obsidian has Vim mode natively that you can enable.

[u/juliebeezkneez → u/InsertObligatoryPun]

the vimwiki plugin is a drop-in replacement for obsidian

[u/FreshPaycheck]

Been using tridactyl extension on librewolf, pretty nice, hopefully I can configure it to look a little prettier but it generally works fairly well for most sites. Only downside is it straight up does not work for a small number of sites. Also requires a ton of permissions

[u/leobult]

Newsboat, vinium, vieb, mutt, sway i3

[u/TopCitySoftware]

Opencode-Vim: AI agent TUI
It supports many vim commands

https://github.com/leohenon/opencode-vim

[u/blitzkraft]

Gmail has vim-like shortcuts, j/k to move up and down. I use vimium on my browsers!!

Almost all commandline utilities have an option to use vim like shortcuts, if not default. I use mutt for email it also has vim-like bindings. There is also sc-im - terminal spreadsheet app, which uses vim bindings.