[Qt-creator] QtCreator and VI

[Mark Long]

I'm definitely interested in looking into what it would take to 
implement that kind of functionality, once they release the sources.  No 
promises, of course, but it sounds like a useful project, especially 
since my vi background is the only major stumbling block I've found so 
far in Qt Creator.  Otherwise I love it.  (Plus, I've got some spare 
time to fill...)

-Mark

Adam Higerd wrote:
> 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
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