On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Charles Curley wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:42:35PM -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:32:53 -0700, "Michael L Torrie"
Probably because emacs and CUA are both modeless, so it's relatively
easy to do emacs bindings.
Hmmm. There are several vi emulation modes available for emacs. So it
ought to be possible to write one for eclipse. I haven't tried any of
them, so I don't know how well they emulate vi.
Eclipse doesn't actually have an "emacs" mode, it's just a set of
keybindings that changes things like "save" or "search in place", but it
doesn't implement any of the fancier (or even not-so-fancy) features of
emacs.
I personally am a die-hard vi user and wouldn't touch emacs with a
ten-foot pole, but I have heard from emacs addicts that the Eclipse emacs
mode is pretty lame and they end up turning it off after a while anyway.
(At any rate, the practical upshot of this is that we can't emulate vi
mode in Eclipse's emacs. Sadly enough.)
But again, I'm highly interested in writing a vi plugin for Eclipse if
someone can get me past the hurdle that is the Eclipse plugin API. Any
takers?
~ Ross
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