[vimplugin-devel] Vim-style editing in Eclipse-editor

[Daniel K. <d...@do...>]

Hi there!

I'm a hardcore-Vim-user for myself (80x25 virtual terminal, of course), 
but for work I have to use Eclipse as an IDE; and in fact, the 
Eclipse-Java-editor offers some nice features useful when writing Java 
(and so does the XML one, for instance).

At work we also use the Eclipse code formatter to ensure uniform 
code-format, simply Ctrl+Shift+F.

However, I'm missing Vim-style editing; today I found out that there's 
vimplugin, aiming at providing a Vim editor inside Eclipse.  I didn't 
yet manage to get it work, so I have never seen it live; but as far as I 
found out, it is somewhat embedding of a real vim at the editor's place, 
isn't it?  So you don't have native Eclipse-editor features like the 
ones I described above, right?

What I think of is that it may be possible to extend the real 
Eclpise-Java-editor to accept vim-commands?  I don't know much of 
Eclipse-plugins yet, but this seems somewhat probably to me.  You would 
need to implement the Vim commands yourself, though.  But if this is 
possible (and not yet covered by vimplugin), I'd really like to 
implement this -- either as part of vimplugin if you think this would 
make sense or as separate project, maybe with some help and experience 
from you?

Hope to hear your opinions,
yours,
Daniel

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