VimSpeak Demo

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Recommends riedel · 2026-01 · on “I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool”

While I had times discovering myself to accidentally putting 'i' accidentally into MS Word docs and having vom key binding ls in VS Code (and formally eclipse) as well for that reason, I still feel clumsy. I think this is because I mostly rely on muscle memory rather than understanding deeply what I am doing to also allow me to go beyond what I normally do ) which already makes me faster than in any other editor). I found VimSpeak [1] interesting because I somehow understood how to really compose vim commands in a way [1] [this video]

Cites pmoriarty · 2016-12 · on “Why I switched from Vim to Emacs”

Here's voice input for emacs: [1], [2] And for vim (inspired by [2]): [3] I'm sure gesture tracking would probably not be too hard, using any of a number of VR input devices now on the market. Eye tracking would be harder, as I'm not aware of any consumer-level eye-tracking technologies out there. You could certainly have head-tracking pretty easily, though. Now integrating this in a way that would actually be fluid, natural, and useful is another story, though. Also, I'm personally not sure how many big body movements I want to be doing while using my computer (unless I'm trying to exercise, play a game, draw, conduct music, or lose weight). Ideally, I'd want to be as motionless as possible

Cites melling · 2017-01 · on “Typing Practice for Programmers”

An IDE does greatly reduce typing. What we need next is some advanced voice input added to our editors. This "John Henry" mentality that developers have about typing never seems to go away. We should be building smarter tools. We're getting closer with voice. VimSpeak: [this video] Using Dragon: [LINK] Using Kaldi: [LINK] This toolkit seems to be the most widely used: [LINK] Better predictive typing would also be useful. Computer languages often greatly narrow what you probably want to type next, because of scope, for example.