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by jng 1436 days ago
I couldn't believe the lack of support for the dot command in vi emulation in Xcode. Emulation is quite complete, mostly missing regex and ex command support (but even a vi mode that way it's still very usable), but without the key component that is dot command repetition, the whole vi/vim experience is ruined. There must have been some heated conversation at Apple, someone who knows and cares about vi/vim poured a ton of love into getting that right, and they must have felt the pain of not including dot command support.

Just hoping they will address that in a future version of Xcode.

2 comments

The dot command is always what seems lacking in the various emulation layers. Either it doesn't work at all, or doesn't work the way you expect. As a dot command addict, this makes me sad.
The weird thing is that is just isn't there in Xcode in any form, yet is the most time-saving feature of the vim keybindings.
that one missing dot operator in Xcode is almost enough for me to use JetBrains AppCode instead