Fabian Braennstroem wrote:

> Hi Eike,
> 
> * Eike Rathke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Fabian,
>>
>> On Tuesday, 2006-11-21 11:22:58 +0100, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>>
>>> I saw that it was discussed a couple times before, but 
>>> I was wondering, if there are any plans to achive vim-like
>>> keybindings in openoffice/writer?
>>
>> That probably wouldn't be achievable as Writer has no command mode. Key
>> input without modifiers like Alt or Ctrl is taken as text input.
> 
> Would it be so hard to implement such a command mode. I
> would imagine that a lot of the openoffice developers are
> using vim for their dayly programing and wish to use it when
> using the writer!?

I assume that it is doable (though I didn't think it through completely).

OTOH it is a feature only interesting for a minority of users so it's
definitely something that will only happen if a volunteer developer will
do it. Of course I can give some tips how it can be done.

Ciao,
Mathias

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OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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