bashmacosterminalvi
I recently discovered terminal's feature, you can set the keys emacs or vi style
I prefer the second. so if you do
set -o vi
You can use k j l h keys to navigate on the command line. And you can switch between 'Normal' and 'Insert' modes like in vim.
However there's no way to visually distinguish one mode from another, even cursor doesn't change. Which makes vi-style pretty much useless. Is there a way to make it truly vim-like?
If you're serious about terminal work, I would suggest looking at tmux, especially as new builds of iTerm 2 come with it precompiled in (though I use the 'vanilla' version). In your case, if you were using tmux you could detach the current session from the window you're in, and then reattach in a new one (i.e., full screen), or just have multiple windows attached to the same session. There are some other advantages to using tmux, but I'm sure you'll discover them as you're using the program more.
Alternatively, have iTerm show the tab bar even if you only have one tab (make sure Appearance > Hide tab bar… is unchecked), and then you can 'pull' the tab out into its own window to continue using it.
⌘← can be assigned to \eOH and ⌘→ to \eOF. You could assign ⌥← to \eb like in Terminal, but it doesn't work in vi mode or nano.
In emacs mode you could also add this to .inputrc:
"\e[1;9D": backward-word
"\e[1;9C": forward-word
"\e[3~": kill-word
C-v shows the escape sequence for the next key combination. ^[ is ESC in caret notation. bind -p prints currently bound commands.
Best Answer
bashtozsh. I will not describe here how to set up mode indicator in Z-Shell – there are a lot of howtos over Internet, e. g.: [1], [2].show-mode-in-prompt.Like so:
in your
.inputrcoras a shell command. This adds a character to the beginning of the prompt indicating the editing mode:
@for Emacs,:and+for vi normal and vi insertion respectively.I. e. your prompt will look like
+agzam@pc:~$in input mode and:agzam@pc:~$in normal mode. As far as I understand this can not been customized in any way, but still it’s better than nothing.