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

[David T. <dav...@gm...>]

There already exist such a project:

http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/

Its closed source though and has a price for the full version (not sure
if they still offer a 'basic' free version any more like they used to in
the past).

Best Regards,
David Terei

Daniel Kraft wrote:
> 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
>