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TO better understand the architecture, how will this work if I want to use the shell in vi mode? IIUC that would not be possible with their setup, right? Warp would need to implement a vi mode, correct?

Is it possible to work with vim in warp?

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You can launch vim within Warp without any problems, but vi/vim mode for the line editor itself isn't supported in Warp just yet. You're correct that this is because we'd need to implement VI mode ourselves (tracking issue here [1] if you are interested).

This is the tradeoff of building our own editor instead of using the shell's--we can build features that wouldn't be possible in the shell directly but it requires us to build features that already exist in the shell from scratch. So far, this tradeoff has been well-worth it to build what we think is a better experience when using the terminal.

[1] https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/159

Thanks for the answer! Still curious, how does vim work in Warp? Do you know what process are currently running and then you stop buffering the chars and you pass them directly to the process in foreground? I didn't read the code, but from the article it seemed that you pass the text to the shell only when pressing enter, I think in vi(m) you want to do it the whole time (?). If I want to insert something I just type `isomething to insert<Esc>`. How does this work in Warp? What happens if I put the process in background and then in foreground again?

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