VimStateVim

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Vim’s state for one editor: which mode it is in, the command being typed, and everything needed to repeat the last edit.

The optional fields are absent until the feature that owns them is first used — an editor that has never searched has no search state, and one that has never left visual mode has no last selection.

Import:

import type { VimStateVim } from '@obsidian-typings/obsidian-public-latest';

Signature:

export interface VimStateVim

Properties

	Property	Type	Description
	exMode?	boolean	Whether the Ex prompt is open.
	expectLiteralNext	boolean	Whether the next key is taken literally, which is how f and r read their argument through a langmap.
	inputState	VimInputState	The command currently being typed.
	insertEnd?	Bookmark	Where the current insertion ends, tracked so the inserted text can be found again after the document changes.
	insertMode	boolean	Whether the editor is in insert mode.
	insertModeRepeat?	number	How many times the insertion is repeated when insert mode is left, as 3i asks for. Only set while insert mode is active.
	insertModeReturn	boolean	Whether leaving insert mode returns to the mode it was entered from rather than to normal mode.
	lastEditActionCommand?	VimActionKeyMapping	The action command behind the last edit, replayed by ..
	lastEditInputState?	VimInputState	The input state that produced the last edit, replayed by ..
	lastHPos	number	The column the cursor should return to when moving between lines shorter than it.
	lastHSPos	number	The screen column the cursor should return to, which is what gj and gk move by.
	lastMotion	null | VimMotionFn	The motion that ran last, cleared as soon as a non-motion command runs.
	lastPastedText	null | string	The text pasted last, so a following paste can find what it replaced.
	lastSelection	null | VimLastSelection	The visual selection as it was when visual mode was last left, restored by gv.
	marks	Record<string, Bookmark>	The marks set in this editor, keyed by their one-character name.
	options	Record<string, VimOption>	The options set for this editor only, which override the global ones.
	searchState_?	VimSearchState	The search state for this editor. Absent until the first search.
	sel	VimSelection	The selection Vim is maintaining, which is empty until the first motion runs.
	status?	string	The key sequence shown in the status area while a command is being typed.
	visualBlock	boolean	Whether the editor is in visual block mode. No effect unless visualMode is set.
	visualLine	boolean	Whether the editor is in visual line mode. No effect unless visualMode is set.
	visualMode	boolean	Whether the editor is in visual mode.
	wasInVisualBlock?	boolean	Whether the selection that visual mode was just left from was a block, which operators consult after the mode has already been left.

Methods

	Method	Returns	Description
	onPasteFn()	void	The paste handler installed on the editor's input field while Vim mode is on.

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Links to this page:

• Cm5EditorState
• VimApi
• VimState