Re: [vimplugin-devel] [vimplugin_eclipse] Vim-style editing in Eclipse-editor

[David F. <fis...@ia...>]

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> Behalf Of Daniel Kraft
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:38 PM
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> Subject: [vimplugin_eclipse] [vimplugin-devel] Vim-style 
> editing in Eclipse-editor
> 
> 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?


I am not too interested in extending the features of the existing Eclipse
editor.

But I am interested in making the editor in Eclipse flip back and forth
between the native one and the Vim one.  That way you hit a button and edit
the text using Vim.  Then hit a button to use the native Eclipse features.

I think that would be more useful than trying to rebuild Vim's features
inside of Eclipse.

My $.02.

Dave