[vimplugin-devel] New Ideas

[Toph <fan...@gm...>]

Since there has been so much talk in the past few days about
the different projects that are popping up and how we would
like to get the project up and going again, I thought I would
throw out an idea that I had recently. It comes from a mix of
multiple projects.

You have probably all see viPlugin which is a plug-in for eclipse
that emulates some of the functionality of Vi. It works fairly well,
but it has nowhere near the power of gvim. However, it is a facade
layer basically that captures the keystrokes and does the
appropriate vi-like things.

My thought is this (and please realize that I do not know enough
about it to know the logistics): can we create a facade layer that
simply captures all of the keystrokes and passes them to the
gvim "server" and then back to the built-in eclipse editor? Obviously,
there would be a few changes that would need to be made (especially
when it comes to certain commands), but I really like the functionality
that both editors provide. I am just able to type infinitely faster in vim.

I have done a bit of Eclipse plug-in development, but I have never
worked on the code base of gvim, so what I propose is merely a
thought that might help other (read "more knowledgeable") people
come up with ideas.

Cheers! And I look forward to seeing this project progress.

-- 
Topher Fangio
Software Developer
Frac Tech Services, Ltd.

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