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

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

Sebastian Menge wrote:
> And there is http://viclipse.sourceforge.net
> 
> But I for my part am not interested in simple keybindings. It's the
> features of vim that attract people.

Yes, of course, Vim is powerful and simply "cool" -- but I believe this 
is not the reason for you developing vimplugin, right?  Everyone can use 
real Vim, who wants to do so.

But there may be reasons why someone still wants to use Eclipse, too -- 
and at least for me, those reasons include some nice features of the 
Eclipse editor and the fact I have to use the code formatter at work.

I can't tell what you guys do with Vim, but according to my experience, 
I use only really simple commands 99% of the time; the more advanced 
ones are nice at a time, but not really the reason for why I prefer Vim 
over some plain editor; it's mainly that I keep hitting Esc all the time 
and entering hjkl and digits there.

Of course I admit that re-implementing Vim's commands is more effort and 
somewhat "ugly code-duplication" than is simply running Vim from a 
terminal-window; and I do not talk just about keybindings.  What I 
thought of (although I do not know whether this is really possible) was 
to create my own editor-component, inluding a status-line like the Vim 
one, but embed the Eclipse-editor inside my editor as SWT-component; 
from my understanding of how Widgets work in general, this should be 
possible.

I do not want to persuade anyone to switch to this approach -- your 
project is interesting in its own sense, and in fact, I just came across 
it because I didn't knew of viclipse, which does not provide much code 
yet but is closer to my ideas (Google "vim plugin eclipse" pointed me to 
this project).  However, I'd still like to hear your opinions, why you 
took that way; maybe you can convince me I'm wrong...

Yours,
Daniel

PS:  BTW, thank you very much for the hint about viclipse!

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