Vi Mode

Navigate scrollback and select text with vi-style keys — no mouse, no arrow keys.

Status

This feature is supported in terminal pane, not supported in Otty's built-in code editor yet.

Entering / leaving

Action	Binding
Enter Vi Mode	⌃⇧Space (Control-Shift-Space)
Show / hide the key-hint bar	⌘/
Leave	Esc or q (or the × on the pill)

In Vi Mode the terminal stops forwarding keys to the shell — they drive the cursor through scrollback instead. The binding is remappable under Keybindings (command Vi Mode); a separate Mark Mode command (no default binding) enters the same mode with an arrow-key + Shift-select emphasis.

Repeat counts

Prefix any motion with a number to repeat it: 5j moves down five lines, 3w jumps three words forward, 10k up ten. The pending count shows in the Vi Mode pill as you type it.

Motion

Key	Move
h j k l	left / down / up / right
w b e	word forward / back / end
0 $	line start / end
^	first non-blank character
H M L	top / middle / bottom of the screen
g g / G	top / bottom of scrollback
⌃u / ⌃d	half-page up / down
⌃b / ⌃f	full-page up / down

Arrow keys mirror hjkl, so Mark Mode works without learning the letters.

Selection

Key	Mode
v	character-wise visual
V	line-wise visual
⌃v	block (rectangular) visual
o	swap the cursor to the other end of the selection
y	yank to clipboard (exits Vi Mode)
Enter	copy the selection and exit

Search

/ searches forward, ? searches backward — both open the find bar to type a query. Press Esc to hand focus back to the buffer, then n / N step the vi cursor through matches (n in the search direction, N against it).

f enters Hint Mode for keyboard-driven clicking of on-screen links.

Customizing

Vi Mode has no config-file keys. Remap the Vi Mode, Mark Mode, and Vi Mode Key Hints commands under Keybindings.

See also

• Find — text search inside the focused pane.
• Hint Mode — keyboard-driven clicking, complementary.
• Keybindings — remap any Vi Mode key.