Support VIM editor commands in CLI text input
Resolved 💬 9 comments Opened Oct 5, 2025 by jcgennaro Closed Nov 14, 2025
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What feature would you like to see?
See title. This would make entering prompts much easier. This could be set in the config files.
Important: Do NOT allow emacs commands. only vim.
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would be extremely useful
Yeah, I also think, this will be really useful, currently I think codex has emac based keybindings, which feels very unnatural to long time vim users like me.
I've been working on adding this feature since friday night, here is my draft PR if someone wants to test it.
PR: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/5094
Let me know your suggestions
Let us use a keyboard shortcut to open the prompt in our $EDITOR
Yes please, I want vim support too. Claude code has it
+1
I am very surprised this is not already a priority. It _feels to me as if_ somehow motivations and incentives are such that this is not a serious attempt at a popular terminal based programming tool. No disrespect intended.
Closing in favor of #2387