[Qt-creator] FakeVim troubles

[Tarun Ramakrishna]

Hi all,

I am new to Qt creator. First of all, Qt Creator 1.2 looks to be a fantastic
IDE and when I learnt that it is free and open source and actually has vim
keybindings, my mouth watered.  (My fingers don't remember the normal arrow
keys any more after years with Vim)

Unfortunately, the vim support seems to be a more than a little flaky.
yank/paste doesn't work work across buffers, err... editor windows. This is
actually a big problem because the usual copy-paste shortcuts don't work in
fakevim mode. (The only workaround is selecting with the mouse and using
Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert).

The backspace behaves really funny in fakevim mode. A backspace pressed very
quickly after typing in text (to correct a mistyped char) will delete right
to the beginning of the line. (tends to cause cursing and no - undo doesn't
restore what was just gobbled). There doesn't appear to be a way to
pass-through Control keybindings to the underlying editor system or a way to
remap some of the vim keys to editor actions.

I understand that the best way to fix these things is to contribute and I am
taking a look at the stuff in plugins/fakevim. However, I find it strange
that no fakevim users would have discovered and fixed this already. Am I
doing something wrong or missing something?

Thanks & Regards,
Tarun
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