[Qt-creator] my cheers, and two cents

[Mark Long]

Is anyone else thinking about implementing these vi commands once the 
source code is available?  I've already got that planned as a todo item 
once the Trolls open the flood gates.  If anyone else is thinking the 
same thing, let me know offline.  Perhaps we can work together on it.

-Mark

Nathan Carter wrote:
>>> 10. I disagree that supporting vi keyboard commands must be all-or-
>>> nothing.  I would love to navigate without even having to hit Ctrl,
>>> Alt, Meta, or whatever.  I would love to set and jump to marks, and
>>> repeat commands with ., and undo accidental navigation with ``.
>>>       
>> Getting a list of commands you'd consider "sufficient" would be nice.
>>     
>
> Okay, here's my best attempt.  I reiterate the words of the earlier  
> poster who did this for emacs and said they really weren't sure if  
> they'd managed to be exhaustive.  But this would be a great start.
>
> Navigation
> 	h j k l (plus arrow keys of course)
> 	H M L
> 	z<Enter> z- z.
> 	<Enter>
> 	0 % { } w e b
> 		almost all of these preceded by numbers as well, as in 100j
> 		(in general most vi commands can be preceded by a repetition number)
> Searching
> 	/<Pattern>
> 	?<Pattern>
> 	N n
> 	# *
> 		and with these the option to highlight all matches ("hlsearch" in vi)
> Jumping
> 	m<Char>
> 	`<Char>
> 	``
> 	G g <Number>G
> Insertion
> 	I i A a O o
> 	R r C c
> 		and of course <Esc> to end insertion mode
> Cut/Copy/Paste
> 	dw d$ dl dt<Char> df<Char> dd
> 	d<Navigation> as in dG dg d/<Pattern> d?<Pattern> etc.
> 		and all of those with numbers in them, as in d3w or 5dd
> 		and all of these with y instead of d, for copy instead of cut
> 		and all of these with c instead of d, for change instead of cut
> 	P p
> 	X x
> Undo/Redo
> 	u (means undo last action, even if it was an undo)
> 	. (means redo last action, even if it was an undo)
> 	Thus uu results in no change, but u... results in four undos.
> Other
> 	J
>
> Phew!  The good news here is that most of these map directly to  
> something the editor already does, but they just let us do it in a way  
> that's hand-efficient, and that we're used to, and that can be  
> manipulated with repetition numbers and the dot.  Some of them are  
> new, such as J, and the repetition numbers just mentioned, as well as  
> the dot, but most are not.  If you want to really make vi users happy,  
> support q and @ too!
>
> Nathan
>
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