Vim for Google Docs™

Vim for Google Docs: Supercharge Your Typing With Vim

Total ratings for Vim for Google Docs™

4.41 (Rating count: 17)

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Pros

Works well
Responsive developer
Improves editing experience for Vim users

Cons

Requires payment after 14 days
Incomplete support for Vim commands
Limited customization options

Most mentioned

Responsive developer
Incomplete support for Vim commands
Requires payment after 14 days

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Recent reviews for Vim for Google Docs™

Recent rating average: 4.20

All time rating average: 4.41

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Date	Author	Lang	Comment
2024-03-22	Voxelfied	en	Great product, as it is the only Vim extension on the Chrome Web Store that works for Google Docs. Overall, I would definitely recommend it, but it could use some other additions to navigation. - Using Control Keys for navigation, including Ctrl-E, Ctrl-Y, Ctrl-D, and Ctrl-U for moving the buffer up and down - Fix error where holding keys including 'h', 'k', and 'l' for Vim navigation opens auto suggestions for diacritics - Typing colon will open the option menu on Google Docs, acting as Vim "Command Line" - Fix bug where Vim Visual Line Mode within a paragraph will select the entire paragraph - Finally, additional features that the extension lacks (I understand that this is a new project)
2024-03-22	Voxel Tech	en	Great product, as it is the only Vim extension on the Chrome Web Store that works for Google Docs. Overall, I would definitely recommend it, but it could use some other additions to navigation. - Using Control Keys for navigation, including Ctrl-E, Ctrl-Y, Ctrl-D, and Ctrl-U for moving the buffer up and down - Fix error where holding keys including 'h', 'k', and 'l' for Vim navigation opens auto suggestions for diacritics - Typing colon will open the option menu on Google Docs, acting as Vim "Command Line" - Fix bug where Vim Visual Line Mode within a paragraph will select the entire paragraph - Finally, additional features that the extension lacks (I understand that this is a new project)
2024-01-18	Konrad Staniszewski	en	Works great! worth the small fee the developer requests. Would be usefull if it handled doc preview mode.
2024-01-03	robbie robinette	en	First of all, thank you so much. Even the partial implementation is a huge improvement over the primitive and time consuming editing required for normal google docs. As an instinctive vim user, the incomplete support often creates a train wreck because a sequence of movement and editing commands will yield an unexpected result. If this were a public domain project, it seems like it would be fairly easy to add the missing commands. I'm hopeful that the author will continue to work towards a complete implementation.
2023-07-08	Kelvin Nava	en	Wow, this is so great. Google Docs is more comfortable with this extension.
2023-11-06	Luciano Panepucci		Needs work but is very responsive. The paragraph object is missing for things like vip or vap, also big word W for moving or viW and lots of other basic features. I'm not against paying but my main concern is that the extension has access to documents contents. This is obviously required but having the extension open source would be nice.
2023-10-04	Tyler McCoy		I disliked it because it only lasts 14 days before being required to pay money. They should allow default configuration to free users but if they want to ask for money they can allow extra options for paying users to customize the config
2023-09-25	Joey Carney		Actually pretty cool, and works well. I got rid of it because it's paid. At the moment it doesn't offer huge advantages over the native Google Docs commands, but I would definitely keep it if it wasn't paid. Seems like the developer is staying active and working on it. Hopefully there'll be an open source version in the future.
2023-09-22	S T		Really excited that this is being handled; I've reached out to the developer and they're very responsive and already working on they bugs and adding feedback to the backlog. Keep up the good work - this is a killer extension!
2023-08-12	Luke Terheyden		It's okay, it has the basics right. It has some bugs, e.g. `{` and `}` don't jump to the next paragraph (in the Vim sense, a blank line), only the next carriage return (a Google Docs paragraph). The cursor can be placed beyond the end of the line (probably a browser limitation though). I don't think you can set custom keymaps or customize in any way, as of this writing. It feels like it's just some JavaScript hooks running on top of Google Docs. I don't mind paying for software, honestly, but it's a little premature, in my opinion, to ask for money for this extension: it's not in the FOSS spirit of Vim, but also this extension is just not nearly at the same quality level as Vimium, Wasavi, or Firenvim (all of which are free IIRC and deserve payment / donations). So I'm taking off another star for this.

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