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<blockquote data-quote="Hacker News" data-source="post: 76386" data-attributes="member: 365">As a Vim user, I often use Vim to write some text and then copy &amp; paste it into another text field of GUI apps (e.g. browsers, chat apps, etc.), because almost all of these text fields provide only very basic editing functions.A while ago, I came up with an idea: what if we could use Vim as an IME?Ordinary IMEs are used to input some non-English characters, but the essential functions of IME are 1) receiving a keyboard sequence 2) process the key sequence and outputting a textThese functions are the same as text editor's. So I thought implementing an IME that can be used with Vim keybindings could be a good solution for the above problem.After that I learned mechanisms of IME for Linux desktop and tried to develop an experimental IME.<hr />Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33850477" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33850477</a>Points: 3# Comments: 0<a href="https://github.com/algon-320/vime" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hacker News, post: 76386, member: 365"] As a Vim user, I often use Vim to write some text and then copy & paste it into another text field of GUI apps (e.g. browsers, chat apps, etc.), because almost all of these text fields provide only very basic editing functions. A while ago, I came up with an idea: what if we could use Vim as an IME? Ordinary IMEs are used to input some non-English characters, but the essential functions of IME are 1) receiving a keyboard sequence 2) process the key sequence and outputting a text These functions are the same as text editor's. So I thought implementing an IME that can be used with Vim keybindings could be a good solution for the above problem. After that I learned mechanisms of IME for Linux desktop and tried to develop an experimental IME. [HR][/HR] Comments URL: [URL]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33850477[/URL] Points: 3 # Comments: 0 [url="https://github.com/algon-320/vime"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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