Problem installing?
lssjbrolly opened this issue · comments
There are two closed issues that seem unresolved that are related to being unable to get this add-in working.
First, I'd like to say that I know very little about how add-ins work, MS Office, or windows programs in general. I'm forced to use windows at work, which is why I'm trying to use this "add-in."
I followed the instructions from the readme markdown file, and excel seems to recognize the add-in, (the checkmark for vimx is checked and excel seems to accept it without any issues) but then I can't use any vim keys. For example pressing "j" doesn't move the selected cell down one and instead just types "j" into the current cell.
I enabled the trust access to VBA in the Trust Center (before I did that, I would get a runtime error). I have not been able to set the MS DAO 3.6 Object Library model (and I'm not even sure I need to because I don't think I'm using an old version of excel) because it says that there is some sort of conflict (naming or otherwise) and prevents me from doing so.
But I feel like I'm missing something simple. Maybe the add-in is there, but I need to activate it with some keyboard shortcut or something? I haven't used "insert mode" (since I haven't got the add-in to work), but maybe I'm just stuck in that? I've tried pressing Esc, but that still didn't put me in normal mode so that I could start using vim keys.
Additionally, I tried using the sample user_config.bas from the readme markdown file and just copy/pasted that into the configure.bas file. Maybe I need to rename configure.bas to user_config.bas?
Something else that is strange is that in the images from both #10 and #8 there is a screenshot posted describing the VBAProject(vimx.xlam) project tree. That tree shows up with VBAProject(vimx.xlam) in the VisualBasic editor, but I have a bunch of individual files and no directory hierarchy as shown in the screenshots in the above issues?
Maybe I don't have the permissions necessary to run this add-in on the computer I'm using at work? Any idea on what I should try in order to get it to work?
Thanks a ton!
Thanks for reporting.
Could you show the your screenshot of images like #10 ?
Firstly I would like to confirm that the xlam file is reconized properly.
For some reason 2.3.4 was not working for me as well. I uninstalled 2.3.4 and then installed 2.3.3 and it is now working.
PS - Thanks for writing this. Navigating Excel without just basic VIM keys has been hell for many years !