I just collapsed the composer twelve times by accident because I keep instinctively hitting the escape key when I want to get out of insert mode and move the cursor around. Has anyone played around with creating a pluigin that would let users switch the composer into vim mode?
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A discussion about creating a Vim mode plugin for the composer has begun. mcwumbly expressed their desire for such a plugin after accidentally collapsing the composer while trying to exit insert mode. ryanerwin shared a Chrome extension called Wasavi, which provides Vim mode in the composer. However, sam pointed out its limitations, including lack of @mention and emoji support. ryanerwin provided tips on customizing Wasavi, including disabling the launch bell sound. shutosha appreciated the resource and noted that the composer’s built-in Markdown support makes writing in Vim mode even more convenient.
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Love this idea.
In my case, I’m actually typing this reply in in Vim mode.
Not perfect, but you can install it right now.
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This is very interesting, except for the absolutely horrendous sounds 
the one thing you do miss out about big time is @mention support and :emoji.
Seems to work though for the diehards!
Haha… It’s a version of vi so it must not be usable without customizing the .rc file…
set nolaunchbell is what you’re looking for.
For me:
" exrc for wasavi
" https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi/wiki/All-Options-which-wasavi-recognizes
set ts=4
set sw=4
set ai
set et
set nu
set bellvolume=5
set nolaunchbell
set visualbell
set theme=matrix
map! <C-V> <esc>"*pa
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this is really amazing . Thanks for sharing !
even better because discourse editor has an inbuilt md support. So you can write as much much markdown as you want in vi mode