(Feature request) VIM support

[CallumBaston]

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Describe feature

Embedded Nvim support.

Currently whenever I want to make large changes to notes I have to open the note externally ( which opens it in Firefox ) then navigate with nvim to the tmp file then edit that file. This can be quite tedious especially if I have a lot of notes to edit.

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[abitofevrything]

Adding NeoVim support would mean adding support for nano, emacs and any other text editor. Trilium is designed for taking notes with CKEditor, so that is probably the only editing component that will be embedded.

[CallumBaston]

Adding NeoVim support would mean adding support for nano, emacs and any other text editor. Trilium is designed for taking notes with CKEditor, so that is probably the only editing component that will be embedded.

Neovim is designed to be relatively quick to implement. If this is not possible is there a quicker way to have the files open with it rather than firefox?

[zadam]

If this is not possible is there a quicker way to have the files open with it rather than firefox?

Trilium opens the default application associated with the file type. So the easiest way is to change the default application for *.html files to (neo)vim.

[CallumBaston]

That can also cause some issues. Such as documentation and archives of sites being in HTML format.

[XingSc29]

It would be great if there is VIM support for text notes.

I usually use Obsidian to create notes because it supports VIM, then import the notes from there to Trilium, which creates troubles because the images won't be imported.

[Nriver]

It would be great if there is VIM support for text notes.

I usually use Obsidian to create notes because it supports VIM, then import the notes from there to Trilium, which creates troubles because the images won't be imported.

You can use obsidian-export and trilium-py together to import note from Obsidian into Trilium.

If you're interested, read more here https://github.com/Nriver/trilium-py#import-from-obsidian

[halvabner]

i can't believe so few people want this. unfortunately, it's a deal breaker for me.

if there is a way to add vim bindings to this electron app somehow, please do tell and i'll look into it. i'll even write code if it's not too much work.

[ryanwwest]

@halvabner I don't think it's necessarily that so few people want this. I use Obsidian and VS Code majorly for their vim keybindings support and know of many people who also do so for the same (e.g. I just found this article earlier today: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-one-reason-i-moved-from-notion-to-obsidian-as-an-engineer-68c4d78f412c). I think it's more that not that many users don't care to post about them publicly on places like Github Issues (or don't realize they can). I think most people that don't end up using a piece of software won't take the time to provide feedback. I briefly tried Trillium in the past and this was also the biggest dealbreaker to me.

[meichthys]

Trilium has entered maintenance mode. Future enhancements will be addressed in TrilumNext: TriliumNext/Notes#79