Vim-like movement

[Vndtta]

Hi, I've searched in the archive of the mailing list and didn't find anything... Sorry if it's been asked before (I guess it must have)

Is there anyway of setting the movement commands like vim? hjkl?

Thank you

[hishamhm]

Hi! There's no way for enabling vim-like movement in the current release. The keybindings clash with existing commands, so I'm wary of adding that. But thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it filed in the "wishlist" label.

Here is a patch which offers very basic vi like keybindings https://pastee.org/bny2j
The key bindings which clash with existing ones seem to have also been rebound in the patch, and from a very quick test on htop 1.0.3 from git it seems to work fine.

[darvelo]

👍

[Vndtta]

You are awesome, thanks!

On May 24, 2014 3:38:48 AM CEST, Michael notifications@github.com wrote:

Here is a patch which offers very basic vi like keybindings
https://pastee.org/bny2j
The key bindings which clash with existing ones seem to have also been
rebound in the patch, and from a very quick test on htop 1.0.3 from git
it seems to work fine.

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[e9t]

One vote up +1 for this wish!

[zkanda]

Hello, was this ever implemented?

Thanks

[hishamhm]

it was added as Alt+{h,j,k,l}.

[zkanda]

Hmm, weird, my version of htop is 2.0.1, but it doesn't seem to work.

[kaefer]

It works (here on my machine with german keyboard layout) with pressing the left-alt button (alt and not alt-gr)

[hishamhm]

@zkanda it might be a limitation of your terminal. Open a shell, type read and press Enter. It will give you a prompt that will echo the ANSI codes for your keypresses. Type hjkl with and without Alt. It should produce different results. If the results are the same, htop has no way to detect that Alt was pressed. In my system it shows:

hisham@pointer ~]read
hjkl^[h^[j^[k^[l

[zkanda]

My terminal seems to be working as expected. Using gnome-terminal.

Can you please confirm this behavior?
https://asciinema.org/a/6kvkdo6szprhqcrpi7z1ctn2e

[hishamhm]

@zkanda That's odd! Keys from read are working as expected. Could you try it on another terminal you might have installed (xterm)? It might be an ncurses configuration issue? I'm at a loss here.

[darvelo]

Would it be possible to set this as a config variable at compile-time or preferably in an rc file or on the command line? I use Alt+{h,j,k,l} for moving through windows in my tiled window manager so the plain keys (non-Alt) in the patch above work best for me.