Dear @santi,
I created the vimrc via vscode, and it is working like a gem now!
Thank you so much for your support!!
HJ
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perfect happy to know you got it working!
Replying to myself: the Autocomplete plugin by Yeboster does exactly this, and it’s great.
Hi santi, I’ve been trying to get my escape key mapped to jk. It is something that I’m familiar with - I have inoremap jk <esc> mapped in my .vimrc file, and map jk <Esc> in my .ideavimrc for PyCharm.
For some reason, I’m struggling to get it working with Obsidian.
I’ve followed the instructions so that:
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Editor → Vim Key Bindings is Enabled.
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Comunity Plugins → Vimrc Support is Enabled
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In the root of my vault, I’ve created a file called
.obsidian.vimrcand inside this file I have just these two lines
imap jk
imap jk
- Restart Obsidian (v.0.12.3)
Is there a step that I am missing?
Thanks.
Resolved - I was editing .obsidian.vimrc on my vault that was located in a different location.
I have the same vault on DropBox and iCloud. I recently moved it to iCloud so that I can continue to work on Obsidian mobile … Anyway, I was making a change to.obsidian.vimrc on my Dropbox vault, but opening up the vault on iCloud.
For others that may encounter this issue, one of the things I found helpful was to type in the command in obsidian.
So, in obsidian, I typed in : imap jk <Esc> and verified that this worked. When it did, I found it strange that the change was not persistent when obsidian restarted. So that’s when I realized that the change I made was not the right .obsidian.vimrc file.
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Just putting this solution to a common problem here so that it can be found.
On Windows, Ctrl-C needs to be remapped to make it copy selected text in vim mode. Several people recommend putting unmap <C-c> into the .obsidian.vimrc file but that does not work.
What works is iunmap <C-c> — the troublesome mapping is only operative in insert mode, so you need to unmap it with a preceding i
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Sorry，I am working on the Windows, but I Set “Vimrc file name” = “C:\Users\ryanzhuo.obsidian.vimrc”, i put the file named “.obsidian.vimrc” which has been written “set clipboard=unnamed”, but it didn’t work.
anybody can tell me what’s wrong in my settings？
Yes: if you typed C:\Users\ryanzhuo.obsidian.vimrc literally, it won’t work. You need to set the vimrc file name to C:\Users\ryanzhuo\YOURVAULTNAME\.obsidian.vimrc — with a slash after ryanzhou\YOURVAULTNAME and a period after that. (assuming that your vault isn’t just called ryanzhou!)
I might type the wrong settings before, could you please tell me if it works on the Win10?
here are my screen shots:
That looks certainly wrong, because the .obsidian.vimrc file needs to be in the root folder of your vault, not in your home directory.
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Omg!!!, You are right, Thanks a lot, I found what’s wrong in my settings, It works when I put the file into the workspace, which is the vault you mentioned. I am unfamiliar to Obsidian’s terminology，Such as vault, But I will Keep learning, Thank you for teaching me.
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imap jk <Esc> worked before 0.13.14 version. With latest preview version does not work any longer. Has anyone found a solution already (was too nice when it worked)?
Did you update the Vimrc plugin to its latest version (0.5.1)?
I noticed the the return key does nothing in normal mode. In all my other vim instances it goes to the beginning of the next line w/o leaving normal mode. Any idea how to get this working in Obsidian?
Just to be clear, Vim keybindings in Obsidian is not an instance of Vim. It is a partial implementation based on a CodeMirror project. More context here: "Unknown option: whichwrap" message in vim mode - #2 by rigmarole
(I don’t know how to get it working. There might be a way. But just remember it isn’t a full-featured Vim. You might have to make a feature request on that project.)
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What do you need to put into .obsidian.vimrc to start Obsidian in Insert Mode? Neither start nor set insertmode seem to work.