Add support for vim-style key bindings

[BrendanMesters]

I would be interested in having a simplified mode based control system for nchat, similar to vi.

My thoughts on the user end experience would be that you'll be able to access the three different panes (chats list, current chat, current message) from "normal mode" via ctrl+w+hjkl pane switching commands, move around in the chat lists and current chat window via jk and to have the different special functions (such as reply, edit, the emoji menu, etc) bound to single key commands in normal mode.

This should only be an optional feature, enabled in the key.conf file (e.g. vi_mode=0 by default, vi_mode=1 if you want to enable it).

If this is something which the nchat community would like then I'd be happy to try and implement that sometime :-)

[loeffel-io]

+100

[tucama]

I love this

[EugenioBertolini]

It would be so good

[mashtonian]

Yes please to this!

[abdenourgnx]

Please 🔥

[gensimone]

That would be great!

[oscarmlage]

I'd love to have this feat!

[nasteffe]

If the energy required to do so is not prohibitive, I would love to see this feature added! While I understand that most users would not know vim style keybindings, I do imagine having basic ones would actually make navigating the different spaces much easier and would certainly make the simple keybindings easier to learn and keep track of.

Edited for context.

[pinusc]

I have no idea how feasible this feature is, but something that might be worth considering is to "just" use readline to handle the textbox, and that just comes with automagic vim support.

This would only add vim keybindings in the edit box, but I'm not entirely sure how useful it would be to have them outside...

[semedilino-073]

I think this would easily turn nchat into the best Whatsapp Client, which it is already, but not always :)

[mohammadazeemwani]

Pleaaaaaseee add this.

[jonnieey]

💯💯💯 👍👍👍

[ijuttt]

just here to add +1, would be great