[Qt-creator] QtCreator and VI

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:33:45PM -0600, 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 was actually thinking about having an event filter installed on the
cpp editor catching key events.  hjkl alone is probably not worthwhile,
but %, # and *, cw, di{, :g/.../ etc is something I miss myself.

> 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.

Embedding the Real Thing is indeed a lot more work...

Andre'