{"id":138,"date":"2004-05-14T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T16:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=138"},"modified":"2004-05-14T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T16:45:13","slug":"vi-keybindings-for-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/138","title":{"rendered":"vi keybindings for Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, someone’s finally done it. William Tan<\/a> has put together a set of vi key bindings<\/a> for Microsoft Word<\/a>. (Thanks for the pointer, NTK<\/a>!) I just downloaded and installed it, and thought I’d mention a few things.<\/p>\n

1. The author mentions the instability (“alpha” nature) of the code. I haven’t run it long, but I get quite a few “Error 5346” and “Error 4198” messages. I’m no VB expert (nor even a newbie) so I have no idea what those mean. It didn’t seem<\/em> to affect the document I was editing.<\/p>\n

2. Installing the .dot file exposed some weirdness. The default location where you’re supposed to put these files (on WinXP, with Word 2003) is c:\\Documents And Settings\\Username\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Word\\Startup\\<\/code>. Both the Application Data<\/code> and Microsoft<\/code> directories in the above path were hidden from Windows Explorer and the dir<\/code> command in the shell, but you can cd<\/code> to them. <\/p>\n

The easiest way to install the .dot file is to open up Word, navigate via menus: Tools \/ Options \/ File Locations \/ Startup. Click the modify button, which brings up a file dialog box. Then drag the .dot file to that dialog box.<\/p>\n

All in all, I’m glad someone has done this. Now, if only they’d do it for an IDE editor. Errm, I mean a free IDE–I know Visual Slickedit has a killer vi emulation mode. Yes, I know about Vimulator<\/a> for jEdit<\/a>, but the author’s language (“This plugin is in the early stages of implementation and does not yet provide a consistent or reliable VI-style interface.”), along with the fact it was last released in 2002, scared me away. Actually, it looks like there is one available for Eclipse<\/a>: viPlugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regardless, a very cool hack. Thanks, William.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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