Someone on the #oclug channel said today:

Mind you, and vim-keybindings add-on for OOo would be nice.

So I did the natural thing I googled for it. I am already using vi-bindings in firefox (vimperator) and in zsh.

I came accords a link on using vi shortcuts in abiword, which was instantly interesting to me. I tried the procedure and it didn’t work. However, making the following change did work…

    --- .AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile-original	2007-08-21 14:18:02.278538328 -0400
    +++ .AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile	2007-08-21 14:20:52.738536739 -0400
    @@ -98,10 +98,8 @@
     
            <Scheme
                    name="_custom_"
    +               KeyBindings="viEdit"
                    />
     
            <Recent

And now I have modal editing support in an office suite. I still have to play with it to see if I find it useful… but initially it looks great.