At first, thanks for great project, FelixKratz!

I'm thinking about how to make mode visible, and here is some ways to show it:

• highlight the texture border with different colors like normal -> blue, insert -> green, etc
• add mode to statusbar
• use popup which appears near the cursor when switching keyboard layout

Personally, I have no idea how to implement it.
Maybe you can think about it in next releases?

I am able to build and deploy, however, do you have any tips for debugging or viewing logs etc?

Going into Normal mode and deleting a character in the body turns the whole Note into Title, i.e boldface and bigger font.

Deleted a character in the highlighted line

This is not really an issue, but I was wondering if it would be possible to use jk for escape?

You can check out Vimac and kindaVim.
Vimac does something slightly different, but you could take a look at its scrolling feature.
KindaVim is closed source, but you can check out how it works, and as an idea for how to implement certain features.

Since most of the text fields where svim will be used have line wrapping, having gj and gk would be very useful for mappings like

nnoremap j gj
nnoremap k gk

right now, j and k move logical lines, which makes them a bit hard to predict in text fields where you are not sure where exactly the previous line is (i.e. is the line above wrapped or a "true" previous line?)

The workaround might be as simple as mapping gj and gk to arrow-down and arrow-up, since the arrow keys in macOS use visual instead of logical lines?

So that we can take advantage of so many plugins instead of vimrc.

It may sound stupid, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work. Esc button seem to not work in textfields

Esc key was taken by many apps, to use origin Esc function need to press Esc twice every time.
I use unmap <Esc> in svimrc, but not work.

Is there any way to set a list of apps to disable this for?

It makes VIM mode on VS code, for example, unusable.

Thanks!

I want to have Vim keybindings in notion, but SketchyVim does not seem to be able to edit text fields in Notion. Is there any workaround to this or something I can use?

For CotEditor app when text area larger than window size, move cursor out of bottom it should scroll down automatically, but cursor is invisible out of window.

BTW, how to map keys, such as map gd to Ctrl + CMD + J in Xcode?

Probably the issue from #21; I need to run

sudo rm -rf /tmp/svim.lock
brew services restart svim

every time after restarting my mac, otherwise svim will not work.

I simply tried copypasting a lot of my config, and it seems that vimrc-style comments (" something) make the entire svimrc invalid.

I cannot add svim to launchctl due to some work politics. What I am doing instead is to have a separate Tmux tab with panes for yabai, skhd and now svim too. The first two work flawlessly but the svim seems to crash occasionally. Last time it was 1h20

How can I debug this? Maybe I will find the root cause

I tried to wrap svim package with Nix. I could build svim locally, but Nix uses macOS sdk 11.0 and failed.

duplicate symbol '_g_ax' in:
    /private/tmp/nix-build-sketchyvim-1.0.11.drv-0/main-8aae59.o
    bin/workspace.om
duplicate symbol '_g_event_tap' in:
    /private/tmp/nix-build-sketchyvim-1.0.11.drv-0/main-8aae59.o
    bin/workspace.om
duplicate symbol '_g_front_app_ignored' in:
    /private/tmp/nix-build-sketchyvim-1.0.11.drv-0/main-8aae59.o
    bin/workspace.om
duplicate symbol '_g_ax' in:
    /private/tmp/nix-build-sketchyvim-1.0.11.drv-0/main-8aae59.o
    bin/event_tap.o
duplicate symbol '_g_event_tap' in:
    /private/tmp/nix-build-sketchyvim-1.0.11.drv-0/main-8aae59.o
    bin/event_tap.o
duplicate symbol '_g_ax' in:
    /private/tmp/nix-build-sketchyvim-1.0.11.drv-0/main-8aae59.o
    bin/ax.o
ld: 6 duplicate symbols for architecture arm64

I haven't looked too closely at it but apparently this is what Firenvim does to get full Neovim in browsers: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

Hi, sorry to bother you once more 🙈

So the after everything with Alfred worked fine after updating to 1.0.9, I made changes to the svimrc and restarted svim to load those changes (brew services restart svim).

From then on, svim did not recognize any configs anymore – neither in the blacklist file, nor in the svimrc. (and I made sure I did not include any comments, like in #18). Restarting didn't help, but I did notice an svim still being listed as active process, so I killed that process, too, but that also didn't change anything.

So then I decided to reinstall svim and restarted my machine, but weirdly after that, svim refuses to launch at all. running as a foreground service (svim) only results gives this error message: Error: Could not create lock-file..

try to configure IntelliJ in the blacklist this are my configuration:

Warp
"IntelliJ IDEA"
"IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate"
"idea"

Hi,
Thanks for the great project. I am not online very often and so I don't read much of other peoples comments and issues unfortunatly. mainly I read the manuals.
so I decided to use the abbreviations in svim since snippets are a little more involved.

iabbrev @@ some@some.com

and it only expands when i exit insert mode . normal it expands after I press the space bar. it is a built in feature of Vim/Neovim
it would be a great to have it working.
thanks

Thanks for your beautiful work on this utility. I love it.

I have faced an issue where ctrl+c doesn't work in iTerm. It worked again after I stopped svim.

Slack doesn't seem to be working with SketchyVim. Perhaps it's related to it being an Electron app?

Inside the Alfred prompt, I don't really need vim, and I want to quit the prompt with esc. However, with svim, it takes 2-3 times escape before it quits.

Annoyingly, adding any of these to the blacklist does not work (and I confirmed that the blacklist does work with other apps)

"Alfred 5"
Alfred 5
Alfred
com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred

I also tried both, the Standard Mode and the Compatibility Mode of Alfred, blacklisting Alfred does not work in any of those

title explains everything

Hi @FelixKratz,

Just thought I would see if this was a known issue, I seem to see SketchyVim spawning a bunch of zombie processes.
Thought I would raise this as an issue,

I have attached some ps output to show that the zombie processes are children of the svim process, let me know if you would like any further debug steps to be taken.

λ [~] ps axl | grep Z | grep defunct
  501   964   955   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7046  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7082  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7094  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7097  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7104  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7105  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7161  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7162  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7169  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7175  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7178  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7180  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7188  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7190  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7196  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7197  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  7254  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
  501  8399  6416   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z      ??    0:00.00 <defunct>
λ [~] ps -p 6416                    
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
 6416 ??         0:00.17 /opt/homebrew/opt/svim/bin/svim

Further info about the device if relevant:

I am on an M2 Macbook Air, on MacOS 14.0

Side note, love the project and as always, appreciate your hard work 👍🏼

I've really come to dislike brew due to forced OS updates. To each their own, but I don't think I'm alone in having this opinion. Would you consider providing no brew installation instructions as well?

m1 macbook
when run "brew services start svim"
:

brew services start svim
Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error
Try re-running the command as root for richer errors.
Error: Failure while executing; `/bin/launchctl bootstrap gui/501 /Users/xxx/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.svim.plist` exited with 5.

and run "sodu brew serbices start svim"
:

sudo brew services start svim
Password:
Warning: Taking root:admin ownership of some svim paths:
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/svim/1.0.11/bin
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/svim/1.0.11/bin/svim
  /opt/homebrew/opt/svim
  /opt/homebrew/opt/svim/bin
  /opt/homebrew/var/homebrew/linked/svim
This will require manual removal of these paths using `sudo rm` on
brew upgrade/reinstall/uninstall.
Warning: svim must be run as non-root to start at user login!
Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error
Error: Failure while executing; `/bin/launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/ho
![1](https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyVim/assets/30278786/d6da2615-8dab-4493-9025-4843262fa9a7)
mebrew.mxcl.svim.plist` exited with 5.

Hey, I'm having some problems with svim and the native messages app. It works occasionally, but when I move between conversations I can't get back into normal mode. Sometimes quitting and relaunching messages and/or restarting the svim service gets it back for a minute, but it doesn't last long.

Is this a known limitation or is this somehow fixable? I couldn't find any other issue/discussion on the topic.

Any trick to get it working with Mail?

【some thoughts】black-list & white-list & Application Bundle ID

black-list & white-list

Something like this:

set blacklist=0
set whitelist=1

Terminal

using App Bundle ID instead of App Name

Because it doesn't have spaces between characters and most important: unique

There are serial ways to get an app's Bundle ID:

mdls /Applications/MacVim.app | grep kMDItemCF

osascript -e 'id of app "Neovide"'

http://www.mothersruin.com/software/Apparency/

Hi @FelixKratz,

First off, I wanted to express my enthusiasm for SketchyVim—it's a fantastic project, and I've found it to work seamlessly in most cases.

However, I've been facing an issue when trying to use SketchyVim in the relatively new Arc browser. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to cooperate as expected. Have you come across this before, or is there something specific I should configure to make it work in Arc?

Additionally, I was wondering if there's a way to set SketchyVim to default to normal mode rather than input mode. I find myself often starting in input mode unintentionally, and it would be great to have the option to set the default mode.

Thanks a lot for your work on this project, and I appreciate any guidance or assistance you can provide!

Best regards,
Abel

Hello! Newbie VIM user here.

Thank you for this wonderful project. I am in the process of setting it up and learning how to use it, and was wondering how the svimrc file is meant to be set. For context, I manually created a folder in ~/.config/ named "svim".

1. Do I just create a ".svimrc" file or should it be a plain "svimrc.txt" file?
   1b. Same as above but for the blacklist configuration.
2. Do I place the .svimrc file in ~/.config/svim/ or should it go in some other directory?

Furthermore, I have tried both file formats for svimrc and blacklist, but neither seems to work.

The svimrc for reference:

nmap H 0
nmap L $
nmap :nohl
set clipboard=unnamed

The blacklist for reference:

iTerm2
Terminal
Obsidian
WebStorm
IntelliJ IDEA