it's not perfect, of course: no undo, no searching, the 'w' and 'b' commands are actually 'W' and 'B' (vi users will know what i mean), but it does have 'p', so you can put back what you've deleted (which was necessary to be able to enter "xp", something my typing demands that i do pretty often :-).
it builds on top of emacs-mode -- so most (all?) of the emacs commands (e.g. ^A, ^F, ^B, ^N, ^P) still work while you're "inserting" in vi-mode. this is either a bug or a feature, but mostly it's just a fallout of the implementation.
turning on CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_EDITING_VI adds another couple of kbytes on an x86 system (which is roughly 25% more than emacs-mode by itself).
with luck, i'm not the only person to think this is useful or worthwhile, and hopefully someone else can try it and offer a comment.
vi_mode.pat [^] (14,093 bytes) 01-17-05 17:58 vi_mode-v2.pat [^] (15,674 bytes) 03-24-05 06:18 
