mnkhod
Repl driven development is so cool, like figuring out iex -S mix phx.server really changed my whole workflow.
I been searching online to see if vi keybindings are possible inside IEx, if so that would help with editing commands
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garazdawi
It depends on what you mean with vi bindings, but having different modes such as vi is not possible.
You can however configure other bindings if you wish, that is described here: edlin — OTP 29.0.3 (stdlib 8.0.2). Maybe you can do something with that which makes it simpler for you?
arcanemachine
If you have your visual editor set to Vim (e.g. set
VISUAL=vimin your.bashrc, or before opening IEx), then pressing Ctrl+o will allow you to edit the current command in Vim.smathy
FWIW: ^o didn’t work for me on the Mac, but ESC+o or ⌥+o does.
krasenyp
You can use Emacs with Evil and run IEx session in comint mode.
mnkhod
oh i see the vision
Honestly learning emac than learning AI feels more productive this year
hilko
For me this is one of the many reasons why I’ve mostly moved towards using LiveBook for most of the stuff I’d use IEx for. It’s obviously not a complete replacement, but with some adjustments to my workflow, it’s so much better in most ways /and/ it has pretty solid support for vim keybindings.
Generally I now just connect a livebook to my running project, and when possible, I do snippets of coding inside the livebook. In many cases just being able to see the output as a table is a godsent.