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Mikhail Sirotenko
Mikhail Sirotenko

Reputation: 1020

Is there a way to use Vim keybindings in Google Colaboratory?

Google colaboratory is an amazing tool and the only thing that keeps me from using it more often is the absence of vim keybindings. Is there a way to enable it just like its possible to do for jupyter notebooks and jupyter lab?

Upvotes: 27

Views: 19318

Answers (5)

agold
agold

Reputation: 6276

The setting is now in: Tools > Keyboard shortcuts. Then select vim in Editor key bindings.

Shortcut: Ctrl-M H

Upvotes: 0

ThibautV
ThibautV

Reputation: 439

It's now available in google colab by default. You can select Vim keybindings from Tools > Settings > Editor, or by typing Ctrl+M H

Upvotes: 37

Thomson Comer
Thomson Comer

Reputation: 3919

Due to previous conversation in this posting, I've published autovim to the Chrome extension store. It works perfectly as far as I have found with permanently visible CodeMirror elements, but is still flaky with CodeMirror elements that hide and show like those for Markdown in Jupyter.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autovim/licohjbphilmljmjonhiifkldfahnmja

You can contribute here if you desire:

https://github.com/thomcom/autovim

Upvotes: 6

Robin Dinse
Robin Dinse

Reputation: 1539

Here is a little hack to enable Vim mode via the JavaScript console. Annoyingly, it needs to be re-run each time a cell is executed, so I've bound ctrl/cmd-enter and shift-enter to do just that:

function enable_vim() { document.querySelectorAll(".CodeMirror").forEach(function (e) { e.CodeMirror.setOption("vimMode", true); }); }
document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
  if (e.keyCode == 13 && e.metaKey || e.keyCode == 13 && e.shiftKey) {
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) setTimeout(enable_vim, 1000 * i);
  }
});
enable_vim();

Just be careful to be in normal mode (not in input mode) when running a cell. Otherwise Vim mode will be permanently disabled for that cell and one needs to reload the entire web app to re-enable it.

Upvotes: 9

Craig Citro
Craig Citro

Reputation: 6625

Not right now; feel free to file an issue at https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools.

Upvotes: 1

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