Question: How to control IME in vim mode?

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#1

I like Inkdropā€™s vim mode.
Iā€™m a light vimmer, so itā€™s just as well that I can operate in insert mode as I would in a typical Windows editor.

By the way, in the Inkdrop vim plugin, is there any way to turn off the IME as well with ESC or Ctrl + [ when in non-normal mode? Iā€™ve tried assigning shortcuts on the IME side, but the keystrokes donā€™t seem to propagate to Inkdrop.

I donā€™t have the skills to make a plugin yet, so it would be nice if it could be done with init.js or a simple customization.

#2

Hi Avis,

Thank you for the question.
I had brief research on IME but it turns out that Electron does not provide any API for controlling IME, unfortunately.

#3

Thank you for your support !
I understand.

#4

I finally solved it with AutoHotKey.

As a prerequisite, I use ATOK for IME, but you can probably do the same thing with MS IME.

I have assigned IME OFF to ā€œESCā€ and ā€œCtrl + [ā€ in ATOK, and whether IME is ON or OFF, if I can send those keys for two strokes, I can go back to normal mode.

Therefore, I used a small ahk script as follows.

#Persistent
#SingleInstance, Force
#NoEnv
#UseHook

if WinActive("ahk_exe Inkdrop.exe")
    || WinActive("ahk_exe Code.exe")
{
    $^[::Send ^{[ 2}
    $ESC::Send {ESC 2}
}

This only works if Inkdrop and VSCode are active.

For your reference.

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#5

Cool solution! Thanks for letting me know :smiley: