[Qt-creator] QtCreator and VI

[Adam Higerd]

Chris wrote:
> So far I have done the vast majority of my Qt development with good
> ol' vim and a command prompt.  I've tried using Eclipse and various
> other IDEs but for my personal tastes I simply can't give up the text
> editing features vim gives me for the features of an IDE.  So my
> question/feedback is, what will/does Qt Creator do for me as a coder
> who detests ever having to lift my hand from the keyboard under any
> circumstances? This includes having to move my hand just to move the
> cursor by using the arrow keys (an extremely frequent operation) which
> drives me absolutely nuts.  I remember reading in one of the TT posts
> about Qt Creator that you guys use vim a lot in house, and so I'm
> curious what features of Creator will allow a die-hard VI user such as
> myself and a good number of people I work with to convert?
> 
> ~Chris

I'm a heavy vim user myself, and I'm NOT a Nokia employee, but I feel 
fairly confident that they're not going to implement hjkl navigation. 
Doing so would require implementing a modal editor with command and 
input modes, which is a lot of work for very little gain.

I, too, am fairly anti-mouse (those who hang out in #qt will know how 
much I try to avoid Designer) but moving over to the arrow keys has 
never bothered me -- in fact, I don't hjkl-navigate in vim, and the only 
reason I use ^ and $ is because home and end don't work right on my Mac.  ;)

It might be possible for a third party to write an editor plugin, if the 
editor is pluggable, but it sounds like a lot of work.

/s/ Adam