This has appeared on the backside of Xcode’s Textual content Enhancing > Enhancing settings, certain to make many vi customers very joyful indeeed:
The change is heralded within the Launch Notes:
Utilizing the brand new vim options is tremendous straightforward. When the Vim keybindings are enabled, the underside of your supply editor will get this, displaying present state, plus a number of reminders for these whose muscle reminiscence isn’t fairly present. It’s as much as you to know your hjkluybn stuff.
You possibly can inform in the event you’re navigating or enhancing by the form of the cursor. The cursor is a big block while you’re navigating or utilizing any of the instructions listed right here. It’s a vertical pipe when instantly getting into textual content.
You possibly can faucet i to insert textual content, switching to textual content entry mode after which ESC to return to navigate. Utilizing a colon : doesn’t do something right here, so no :wq, which isn’t an enormous shock as neither w nor q makes a ton of sense in Xcode.
Anyway, in case your a vimficianado, congratulations and revel in the brand new toy.