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viWord 0.6.1

It’s been a while since the last release (0.5), and viWord has been working fine for me, But I’ve not been using the 0.5 that you guys are ;-)

I’ve been using 0.6.1 for quite some time, and beta-testing it to make sure that it’s been running fine for me for a few months before releasing it for public consumption. That said, there is still no warranty whatsoever that the software would behave properly.

Download the zip file here.

So, what’s in 0.6.1?

  • integrated the yy/yw/yb/yc commands from Andrew Koyfman

  • 1G, nG, G, gg commands

  • workaround for Word as the e-mail editor under Outlook 2003. In that mode, you can’t type anything into the To/Cc/Bcc/Subject fields. That is because Word is intercepting the keystrokes that are meant for the message header fields and sending it to viWord. I haven’t been able to find any way to properly relay those keystrokes back to the header fields, so the workaround that Andrew and I came up with is: when the caret is in the header fields, unbind each key temporarily and sending it back to the window for processing, then binding the key again. This incurs a negligible performance penalty only when the cursor is in the header fields; normal editing should be unaffected.




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5 Responses to “viWord 0.6.1”

  1. Joel Says:
    March 3rd, 2005 at 6:58 am

    Hey man, great work. Is there any way to get a simulation of Visual mode? Is there any way to select text right now? V and v don’t seem to work.

    Thanks.

  2. wil Says:
    March 4th, 2005 at 4:05 pm

    There is currently no plans to support visual mode, mainly because I don’t use it myself. If there is enough demand for it, or if someone contributes code to it, it will be done.

    For now, the only ways to select text that I know of are: Shift + arrow keys, or the mouse.

  3. robotgeek Says:
    July 14th, 2005 at 5:19 am

    Very nice…great work. Pretty much most of the stuff I use in vi is implemented. Phew!

    Thanks, and keep up the good work.

  4. Garry Says:
    April 19th, 2010 at 10:27 am

    Hi Wil,

    I know this is an old post, but I'd like to give it a try. However, the link to viword.zip seems to be broken.

  5. wil Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 5:56 pm

    Hi Garry, sorry I missed your comment earlier.

    Indeed the link was broken. I have now updated it:http://dready.org/projects/viWord/viWord.zip

    Thanks for the report!

    p.s. Please note, though, that this little script worked on older versions of Microsoft Word, and is no longer supported.

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