Switch your input method from terminal. This project is a basic support for VSCodeVim. It provides the command line program for VSCodeVim's autoSwitchIM function
Run following command in your terminal:
curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daipeihust/im-select/master/install_mac.sh | shThe im-select program will be downloaded to your /usr/local/bin/ path.
Download the im-select.exe, and move it to the proper path.(If you need the 64 bit version, you can download this one.)
You don't have to install this for linux. linux have tools to switch input methods
If your PATH contains /usr/local/bin, you can just use im-select instead of /usr/local/bin/im-select
/usr/local/bin/im-select/usr/local/bin/im-select imkeyFor example /usr/local/bin/im-select com.apple.keylayout.US
@mengbo provided this configuration for ibus
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.enable": true,
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.defaultIM": "xkb:us::eng",
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.obtainIMCmd": "/usr/bin/ibus engine",
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.switchIMCmd": "/usr/bin/ibus engine {im}"
@VEL4EG provided this configuration for xkb-switch
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.enable": true,
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.defaultIM": "us",
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.obtainIMCmd": "/usr/local/bin/xkb-switch",
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.switchIMCmd": "/usr/local/bin/xkb-switch -s {im}"
@yunhao94 provided this configuration for fcitx
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.enable": true,
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.defaultIM": "1",
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.obtainIMCmd": "/usr/bin/fcitx-remote",
"vim.autoSwitchInputMethod.switchIMCmd": "/usr/bin/fcitx-remote -t {im}",
The im-select.exe is command line program, but it can't work in cmd or powershell. It's microsoft's fault, the keyboard API doesn't support in cmd and powershell. I recommend you git-bash.
Note: The git-bash is not required. It's only used to get current input method key, which needed in VSCodeVim's configuration.
/path/to/im-select.exe/path/to/im-select.exe localeNote: The path in windows is like: C:\Users\path\to\file