vim-mode-plus keymaps for switching between panes not working - atom-editor

I have installed vim-mode-plus package and added the following keymap bindings in the keymap.cson file.
'atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus.normal-mode':
'ctrl-j': 'focus-pane-or-panel:focus-below'
'ctrl-k': 'focus-pane-or-panel:focus-above'
'ctrl-h': 'focus-pane-or-panel:focus-on-left'
however I am not able to switch between the panes ( I am on Windows)
I am able to switch if I use a built-in keybinding as below:
ctrl-w ctrl-j window:focus-pane-below Vim Mode Plus atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus:not(.insert-mode)
Above is copied from the Keybindings search results in atom

I don't think you are using the right command names. If you open the Command Palette (CtrlShiftP), you can search "focus" and find the various commands available for what you're trying to do.
Window: Focus Pane Above
Window: Focus Pane Below
Window: Focus Pane On Left
Window: Focus Pane On Right
To turn these into keybind command names, apply this formula:
Lowercase everything
Remove the space after :
Replace remaining spaces with hyphens
This gives the keybind command names:
window:focus-pane-above
window:focus-pane-below
window:focus-pane-on-left
window:focus-pane-on-right
Also notice the working example you point to uses a different selector than you are using. It uses atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus:not(.insert-mode) rather than atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus.normal-mode. That may be a better option, so your key bindings would work in modes other than normal mode (such as visual select mode).
I think what you need is:
'atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus:not(.insert-mode)':
'ctrl-j': 'window:focus-pane-below'
'ctrl-k': 'window:focus-pane-above'
'ctrl-h': 'window:focus-pane-on-left'
And I'm not sure if you also wanted CtrlL to work, e.g.
'ctrl-l': 'window:focus-pane-on-right'

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Which keybind for smart-searching in history with ZSH?

When using the up and down arrow in my terminal (iTerm 2 on Mac OS Catalina), I can browse through my last commands using the up and down arrows.
I use ZSH (Oh-my-zsh to be precise) and if I type e.g. vim then press up, it will browse my history for any commands issued starting with vim.
I think it's annoying to have to move my hand to the arrow keys, so i wanted to bind ctrl-j and ctrl-k for browsing up and down.
I looked at bindkey and bound ^j to down-history and ^k to up-history. This allows me to browse my history, but not with the "smart" functionality (i'm not sure of the right terminology here) - It simply goes up and down in my history, without regards to my input.
I've looked through the standard widgets on the Zsh Line Editor manual, but I cannot find the right command for this.
Which command should I bind ^j and ^k to to get my desired result?
After some further digging, i ended up on the The Z-Shell Line Editor page at the section called "Prefix searching".
It revealed that the widget I was after, is called history-beginning-search-backward.
When using that widget, it works almost as I wanted it to, but not jumping to the end of the line.
A quick search lead me to another StackOverflow Question, that states that if you want to jump to the end of the line (as with the up arrow), it should be done as follows;
I had the same question and managed to find the solution with some experimentation.
I added the following to my .inputrc
"\eOA": history-search-backward # Up
"\eOB": history-search-forward # Down
"\C-P": "\eOA\C-E" # Ctrl-P
"\C-N": "\eOB\C-E" # Ctrl-N
This binds two hotkeys to Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N. One for history search, and the other Ctrl-E for end-of-line.

How to scroll up in Vim buffer with R (using Nvim-R)

I'm a happy user of the Nvim-R plugin, but I cannot find out how to scroll up in the buffer window that the plugin opens with R. Say for instance that I have a large output in console, but I cannot see the top of it - how do I scroll up to see this? In tmux for instance there's a copy mode that quite handily lets you do this, but how is this done in the R buffer?
An example below where I'm very curious to see what's on the line above the one begining with "is.na(a)...". How can this be achieved?
I have scoured the documentation found here, but without luck.
The answer is apparently to use Ctrl+\ Ctrl+n according to this answer on the bugreports for NVim-R.
Here's what my output looks like when I output mtcars:
When I hit Ctrl+\ Ctrl+n, I can move the cursor and I get line numbers:
To get back to interactive, I just use i, the same way I normally would.
Apparently, if you are using neovim, then you can add let R_esc_term = 0 in your ~/.vimrc file and you can then use the escape key, but if you don't use neovim, you are stuck using the two ctrl commands ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
As pointed out by ZNK, it is about switching to normal mode in Vim's terminal. This, however, can easily fail due to cumbersome keybinding. If such is the case, remap the default keybinding to something reasonable, say, by putting this in your .vimrc:
tnoremap jk <C-\><C-n>
This works for me in Linux running Vim 8.0 in terminal (e.g. does not require Neovim). As you can see, I use 'jk' to switch from insert to normal mode. One can use Esc instead of jk, however, this makes me unable to use up arrow to retrieve command line history as been reported elsewhere.

create multicursor in Atom

I use Atom on Ubuntu 17.10 with wayland window manager.
I can create multiple cursors with CTRL+Mousclick or with CTRL+d to select the next same string.
But how can I for example mark some lines and create a cursor at the start of each line?
Also would be great to use search and find-all to select lots of results in a text to create a cursor at all these results.
I used this workaround at the moment by selecting the line-break and use CTRL+d to select the next linebreaks too with extra cursors, then go one left and Pos1 to have the cursors at the start of each line.
I wanted to select a string that repeats about 200 times in a dataset of 3000 text-blocks in a bunch of output and then I wanted to expand the selection to each of those blocks. That would have been really easy with multiple cursors. I solved this another way now, but for the next time I would like to see a complete instruction manual about how to create multiple cursors in the standard atom setting. I couldn't find this. Search-engines give me lots of plugins and solutions in different multicursor plugins.
I found the manual that explains it like in sublime (ctrl alt up and down):
Alt+Shift+Up and Down
see: https://flight-manual.atom.io/using-atom/sections/editing-and-deleting-text/#multiple-cursors-and-selections
What is missing in the manual is also a useful option:
use "find all" with the search tool in Atom (CTRL+F)
press Alt + Enter to create cursors at all the found locations.
see: https://discuss.atom.io/t/how-do-i-create-multiple-cursors-from-search-result/53231/5
I wanted to make it easy so I could just use alt+⬇️ or alt+⬆️ to have multiple cursors. This was my solution and I think its the easiest:
# From Atom -> Keymap add the following lines:
'.editor':
'alt-up': 'editor:add-selection-above'
'alt-down': 'editor:add-selection-below'

Atom - Force Tab Width 2

I just switched from Sublime Text to Atom in order to turn completely open source.
I have trouble with something very very simple: I want Atom to use always (!) and under any circumstances tab width 2 and replace tab with spaces. This setting is so simple in gedit or Sublime Text, but no matter what I am trying: When I start a new file, tab size is 2 (good!). When I use an existing file, tab size is sometimes 4. I find that a bit annoying.
My current setting in Editor are seen in the screenshot:
There is more than one tab setting
Each package (such as python-language) has its own tab setting(s). Whether the language uses the global default or its own default is up to whoever created the package, but you can generally override it.
In your screenshot, you have set the "Tab Type" to "soft". That will take care of using spaces rather than tabs. You have left the default tab width of 2. That is your global setting.
Now, if you look under "Packages" and search for "python" you will find a package named "language-python". Click on its settings button and you will find a number of syntax-specific settings.
Python Grammar
Python Console Grammar
Python Traceback Grammar
Regular Expressions (Python) Grammar
Each of those grammars has its own Tab Length setting. You can set them explicitly to 2 here to override the package's default. (You probably mostly care about the first one, Python Grammar.)
Python is different
In the case of Python, the package is explicitly configured to default to 4 spaces, probably because Python is very opinionated about whitespace, and PEP 8 recommends 4-space indents. You can see the default package setting here in the package's source:
https://github.com/atom/language-python/blob/master/settings/language-python.cson
'autoIndentOnPaste': false
'softTabs': true
'tabLength': 4
This overrides the global default. That's why Python Grammar does not honor the global tab width, the way that most packages do.
Sometimes there are package overrides
Additionally, certain packages will override your settings for syntax reasons. For example, language-make will override and use real tabs instead of spaces, because that is required by make.
In the case of Python, there is an override to use spaces. The language-python settings page offers a spot for you to change the indentation level, but it does not offer a way to switch to using tab characters. (That's probably justifiable, as tab characters and mixed indentation in Python are a very common cause of difficult-to-debug syntax errors.)
You might need to reload
Lastly, sometimes settings don't take effect completely until you reload the Atom window. You can use the Window: Reload command to do so. Or using the keyboard:
Mac: CtrlOptCmdL
Windows/Linux: CtrlAltR
This is what worked for me.
Disable all non-default packages
Open ~/.atom/config.cson, and append this (same level than the "*" element)
:
".python.source":
editor:
autoIndent: true
tabLength: 2
Re-enable all packages.
I got this help from someone else. Not my own discovery. However, for confidentiality, I cannot cite the source.
Based on soham's answer, I found that setting all tabLength: fields in ~/.atom/config.cson (assuming osx) to your desired length solved the problem.

How to change command-palette scroll key bindings in atom

I'm a new Atom user and I want to override the Atom command palette (shift-ctrl-p) scrolling key bindings to something more vi friendly like
ctrl-n and ctrl-p instead of the annoying arrow keys (which force me to take my hands off the home row).
Just to be clear, I don't want to change the key binding that brings up the command palette, but the key bindings you use to scroll through the list once it's up:
I can only find a binding to override the command palette toggle:
As you can see in the following config file, I was able to override the autocomplete scrolling, and I hope to do the same with the command palette. I've tried 'command-palette:up' ,'command-palette:down' and 'command-palette:move-up' etc. to no avail.
Here's is my keymap.cson.
# Atom Flight Manual:
# https://atom.io/docs/latest/using-atom-basic-customization#cson
#vt add
'body atom-text-editor.autocomplete-active':
'ctrl-p': 'autocomplete-plus:move-up'
'ctrl-n': 'autocomplete-plus:move-down'
'alt-p': 'autocomplete-plus:page-up'
'alt-n': 'autocomplete-plus:page-down'
'home': 'autocomplete-plus:move-to-top'
'end': 'autocomplete-plus:move-to-bottom'
# vim-plus ex mode 2016-04-18
'atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus.normal-mode':
':': 'vim-mode-plus-ex-mode:open'
'!': 'vim-mode-plus-ex-mode:toggle-setting'
# add cmd palette key bindings --> These do not work.
'body .native-key-bindings':
'ctrl-p': 'command-palette:up'
'ctrl-n': 'command-palette:down'
#vt end
I've been really impressed with the key binding support in Atom thus far. I'd be really surprised if it couldn't handle this but, alas, I think this might be the case.
Does anyone know of a way to do this?
Atom 1.7.2, linux
I was able to get single line scroll to work, but not page scroll to work with the following in my keymap.cson:
'atom-workspace':
# these work
'ctrl-p' : 'core:move-up'
'ctrl-n' : 'core:move-down'
# these don't work
'alt-p' : 'core:page-up'
'alt-n' : 'core:page-down'
It would be nice to have page scroll as well, but I should be able to narrow down the list down by typing in text, so I don't foresee needing page-up, page-down all that often.
Now I'm happy.
To target keybindings for just the command palette, you can find an appropriate selector by looking in the command-palette repo keymaps: https://github.com/atom/command-palette/blob/v0.43.5/keymaps/command-palette.cson
This suggests the use of the .command-palette selector, which seems more appropriate then atom-workspace.
'.command-palette':
'ctrl-n': 'core:move-down'
'ctrl-p': 'core:move-up'
I was not able to find a mapping to scroll a page at a time within the command palette, though I'm sure someone else can figure it out. The keyboard page up/down keys have no effect so mapping to core:page-down etc. is not going to work.

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