#42

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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#43

perfect happy to know you got it working!

#44

Replying to myself: the Autocomplete plugin by Yeboster does exactly this, and it’s great.

#45

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:

  1. Editor → Vim Key Bindings is Enabled.

  2. Comunity Plugins → Vimrc Support is Enabled

  3. In the root of my vault, I’ve created a file called .obsidian.vimrc and inside this file I have just these two lines

imap jk
imap jk

  1. Restart Obsidian (v.0.12.3)

Is there a step that I am missing?

Thanks.

#46

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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#47

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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#48

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.

#49

anybody can tell me what’s wrong in my settings？

#50

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!)

#51

I might type the wrong settings before, could you please tell me if it works on the Win10?
here are my screen shots:

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#52

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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#53

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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#55

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)?

#56

Did you update the Vimrc plugin to its latest version (0.5.1)?

#57

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?

#58

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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#59

What do you need to put into .obsidian.vimrc to start Obsidian in Insert Mode? Neither start nor set insertmode seem to work.