Not as useful in a document as opposed to writing code, but there are still circumstances where it'd be nice to switch between matching parenthesis.

Thanks a lot for this amazing plugin (I've been waiting that for a long time).

Is it possible to map jk on Esc (very popular mapping in vimrc) ?

I've installed the plugin for libreoffice 4.4 (in french langage). Unfortunately, p (for past) doesn't work. If I copy a line using yy or dd, and I press p after, nothing happens.

di( and similar work fine but diw and daw not so much...

Hi Seanyeh,

Please update to support the latest LibreOffice.

Thanks

Regards

vim-easyclip is so great, I don't want to use Vim without it, but now I can't stand other vi implementations.

Regardless of clipboard history etc. (can be handled by system-level tools), the primary key issue is that I really really really want to be able to us the d related delete operations as the normal delete functions in LibreOffice, i.e. do not copy the deleted stuff to the clipboard! and have m functions (for "move") work the same as the d functions normally do in Vi.

This will be the difference to whether I feel comfortable using vibreoffice. It should be pretty easy to do. It's just duplicating the d-related functions, swapping the letter m, and then do delete instead of cut for all the d stuff.

Thanks, excited about this project

From Normal mode, when clicking on text anywhere in the document with the mouse, the cursor switches to it's Insert mode appearance (a single line) instead of it's Normal mode appearance (single character selected) despite Normal mode still being in effect.

Personally I would prefer that it switch to insert mode, or better yet allow the user to set this behavior in a config file somewhere, but regardless the cursor appearance should stay consistent.

When I press e in vim, it behaves the same as w but puts me at the end of successive words. e is only jumping me to the end of the word I'm on, then it doesn't work anymore.

Vibreoffice is a great idea however there are a couple of things that I find missing that can hopefully get added at some stage.

Probably easy to implement:

• gg to get to the start of the document and G to get to the end
• 0 as an alternative to ^ to go to the start of the line
• ~ to toggle the case of the letter under the cursor

Probably harder to implement:

• V for visual line mode
• / to jump to the next match of a word. This is the main way I get around in vim

As an aside that is not worth creating a separate issue for: it would be nice for the README to state that you have to enable vibreoffice in Tools→Add-Ons, as I didn't work that out straight away. (After reading the README again, it looks like this was in there)

I've been trying to run this on lb but i couldn't.
i don't know how it works but if someone can fix this please help us. :c

This might be trickier than some of the other issues due to the way Libreoffice handles Line endings, but hopefully there's a way since "$" works fine.

Hi @seanyeh

I have noticed when more than one window of Libreoffice is open, I can't use the plugin for both windows. Only the first window that I enabled the plugin usage is working.
Is it a bug, or something with I can deal with?

Cheers,
Arnaldo

Most of my daily work in LibreOffice uses spreadsheets/Calc, not documents/Writer. My initial glance at loading vibreoffice was in Calc, and at least hjkl just typed the letters into whatever cell had input focus, rather than moving the input focus to another cell. It also doesn't look like it's in the Add-Ons section for Calc like it is in Writer.

If I get some free time I'll see if I can make a patch.

I am a Colemak touch typist (http://colemak.com/ There are dozens of us! DOZENS!), and I have gotten used to lightly modified keybinds. It would be nice to be able to rebind some of the keys in Vibreoffice, and use my non-standard muscle memory more fluidly.

Is this already possible? A config file, such as ~/.vibreofficerc would be great!

If it's not possible yet, there's no rush, and if this functionality is low priority or undesired, I would understand.

Here's an excerpt from my .vimrc to demonstrate what I mean (it looks much more complicated than it is in practice):

"""""""""""""""""
" Colemak-Vim Mappings
"
" Vi's traditional Qwerty-centric H J K L "arrow" keybinds are swapped for the Colemak
" homerow equivalent H N E I. As little else as possible is changed. As such, J K L are
" free to use and N E I need new keys.
"
" Therefore, we shall assign:
"
" - k/K as the new n/N.
" - s/S as the new i/I ["inSert"].
" - j/J as the new e/E ["Jump" to end of word].
" - l/L to skip to the beginning and end of lines. More intuitive than ^ and $.
" - Ctrl-l to join lines, making l/L the veritable "Line" key.
" - r to replace i as the "inneR" modifier [e.g. "diw" becomes "drw"].
"""""""""""""""""
" HNEI arrows. Swap 'gn'/'ge' and 'n'/'e'.
noremap n gj|noremap e gk|noremap i l|noremap gn j|noremap ge k
" In(s)ert. (The default s/S is synonymous with cl/cc and is not very useful.)
noremap s i|noremap S I
" Last search.
noremap k n|noremap K N
" Beginning of line / End of line / Join Lines.
noremap l ^|noremap L $|noremap J
" r = inneR text objects.
onoremap r i
" 'Jump' to end of word
noremap j e|noremap J E

If i delte the last word in a line with 'dw'
then the word is being removed + the linebreak.
This is resulting in the next line is now tied to the line before .

Great project btw :)
made my day

Hello,

I have libreoffice from Debian Sid, and I installed your extension. But I'm not sure how get it working.

How do you flip from insert mode to normal mode ? In my installation no key has changed its behaviour

Thank you developping such extension !

I make mistakes a lot, so this was one of the first things I noticed...

Typing dw from the start of "word," also deletes the comma/whatever punctuation you have there. In vim it doesn't, that's more like dW behaviour.

Occasionally I have to change the font size or something for the document as a whole, and I'm in the habit of just pressing Ctrl-A to select everything. With Vibreoffice enabled, Pressing Ctrl-A simply moves the cursor to the top of the document after what I can only describe as a strange flicker onscreen. This might just be an unavoidable conflict, but I don't think Ctrl-A does anything in Vim. (That I can think of at least.)

From my brief half hour testing I noticed that } seems to exhibit the exact same behavior as ). If I have several sentences with a single line break between each (but no blank line), pressing } just takes me to the next sentence, not to the line break at the end of this chunk of text. I have a hunch that this is an issue with the underlying Libreoffice API (perhaps it should look for two line breaks instead of 1?) but it would be helpful if a workaround could be found.

While trying to insert an Annotation, it returns the following error:

BASIC runtime error!
Type: com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
Message: no text selection.

This is the excert of the code where it seems to crash.

' -----------
' Singletons
' -----------
Function getCursor
    getCursor = VIEW_CURSOR
End Function

Function getTextCursor
    dim oTextCursor
    oTextCursor = getCursor().getText.createTextCursorByRange(getCursor())
    ' oTextCursor.gotoRange(oTextCursor.getStart(), False)

    getTextCursor = oTextCursor
End Function

First off, thank you for this! LibreOffice is awesome, and this extension turns it into an amazing word processor!

In vim, I typically use ctrl+[ to exit insert mode. It's easier on my pinkies. Any chance of getting it added as an escape sequence?

I downloaded .ext on Windows 8.1. Shows active under Tools. Esc doesn't seem to work. How to get out of input mode and into movement mode?
Thank you. This is a dream come true when I get it working.

Would really like to be able to kill some lines (can't remember the correct terminology, I've used so much Emacs and vim that kill, pull, yank, etc are blurred... I think it's yank then put right?) I'd love to be able to D or dd a line and then move and p a line back in.

OT: I love the plug in though. While I prefer to write in LaTeX when I can, there's just some times that I have to use a WYSIWG for my job. I bounce around between Libre, Pages, and Word depending on the application. But, your plugin is going to have me permanently switching to Libre for just about everything.

Now to find time to learn how this program is coded to send you a few pulls.

Thank you for your time and effort, just wanted to document a missing normal mode binding for J, which joins the current and next line in vim.

Hello Sean,

The e command doesn't work. Would compiling it myself be a possible work around (LO 5.2)?

This little tool is awesome. Thank you so much! I don't like WSIWYG text processors, but occasionally reviewing someone else's stuff is necessary. It is great to still feel at home.

It is too bad you aren't tinkering with this more. I am considering picking this up. Any tips?

Thanks again,
Brian

Console output:
http://pastebin.com/GmkhqRmz

Build still appears to work fine, but the error is misleading, and clearly something isn't working right.

Solved! Thanks!

tried both versions, appear to install correctly but absolutely no functionality present

Thanks for your work though! looking forward to using it

This isn't so much an issue with vibreoffice as it is with Libreoffice's lack of documentation (that I can find at least), so I was wondering what resources you used @seanyeh to get familiar with Libreoffice's API. I'm interested in contributing if I can, since a vim plugin for libreoffice is an idea I had a while back but never figured out where to start. What would you recommend as far as getting familiar with how vibreoffice actually interacts with Libreoffice?

Also, (and this is a terribly newbish question, I'm sorry) is this written in Visual Basic or Visual Basic Script, or is there a difference? GitHub is telling me that it's Visual Basic, but a quick google search on the .vbs extension tells me it's VBScript. Are those the same thing? Pardon the newbishness.

There is a slight difference between vim movement and the plugin right now,

i aoeu <esc> b w

On Vim, the w movement would advance to the 'u' (as if e movement was used), but Vibreoffice doesn't move at all.

It would be really handy if the usual :wq, :q!, /searchItem, etc. commands could be used in addition to standard keybindings. Not a bug so much as a feature request, but this would definitely be something to implement.

Hey thanks for putting this together it's great to get vim commands in libreoffice.

This is a feature request to add vims "." repeat last action command, its just the key I use the most often in vim and can't stop doing it instinctively now...

This isn't a bug, but a feature request. A lot of people use the fancy left and right single and double quotes in LibreOffice, but this means that using f, F, t, or T on ' or " will not jump to those characters.