Re: [Builder] Emacs mode and keybindings

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On mån, 2015-03-02 at 19:50 -0800, Christian Hergert wrote:
> On 02/19/2015 03:05 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > A good place to start cleaning this up would be to move as much generic
> > functionality from gb-source-vim.c into generic actions and action
> > signals on GbSourceView so that things can be reused between different
> > editor emulators.
>
> I did spend a little time this evening taking a look at what it would 
> take to use @binding-set in CSS to implement Vim.
>
> The first thing we'll need to fix is GtkTextView swallows normal input. 
> So things like j,k,l,h is swallowed before the binding set can activate.

If you make the edit mode "modal", like: 

  bind "escape" { "set-mode" ("vim-command", modal) };

Then the binding set for the mode will steal all the key events until you unset the mode.

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