How To Install geany-plugins-vimode on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-vimode in Fedora 36. geany-plugins-vimode is Vim-mode plugin for Geany

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-vimode on Fedora 36.

What is geany-plugins-vimode

Vimode is a Vim-mode plugin for Geany written by a guy who does not use Vim. Expect problems unexpected by a Vim user and, please, report them. Despite the limited Vim knowledge of the author, the plugin tries to be a reasonably complete Vim mode implementation featuring * normal mode, insert/replace mode, visual mode, line visual mode * repeated commands (e.g. 10dd - delete 10 lines) * “motion” commands (e.g. d10l - delete 10 characters to the right) * “text object” commands (e.g. di( - delete inner contents of parentheses) * visual mode commands (e.g. ~ to swap case of the selected text) * basic ex mode commands like * most basic navigation, selection and text manipulation commands * command repetition using “.” and repeated insert

We can use yum or dnf to install geany-plugins-vimode on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geany-plugins-vimode.

Install geany-plugins-vimode on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install geany-plugins-vimode using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-vimode

Install geany-plugins-vimode on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install geany-plugins-vimode using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-vimode

How To Uninstall geany-plugins-vimode on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the geany-plugins-vimode package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-vimode

geany-plugins-vimode Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/c64e76e6a31a62b933c54e4121e945c8b9c73c
/usr/lib64/geany/vimode.so
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/vimode
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/vimode/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/vimode/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/vimode/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-vimode on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).