Re: [gnome-love] gnome-vim bonobo component

["James Hamilton" <JAMESH davistl com>]

The drop comp stuff is good, and I would like to see it in Vim.  I 
posted to comp.editors about that, and have actually considered 
developing it myself.  However, there is more than just key bindings 
that I miss when I switch from Vim to Scintilla.  I miss the entire Vim 
environment, the scripting, the text operators, and the regex engine.  
It would just be great if Anjuta worked with Vim.  Then I would use
Anjuta, and so would many other staunch Vim supporters.  I don't
think Scintilla was really meant to emulate Vi or Vim.

--James

Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in> 12/04/01 
07:55PM >>>
>On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 19:25, Janne Morén wrote:
>> On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 19:37, John Ericson wrote:
>> > On Nov 30 16:23, Jason D. Hildebrand wrote:
>> > > I've created a bonobo component which embeds VIM inside a zvt widget, and
>> > > implements part of the GtkHTML interface.  It works with Evolution (if you
>> > > hack evolution a bit so that it knows about gnome-vim).
>> > > 
>> > I thought there would be a general interface for text editors in gnome?
>> > Isnt the GtkHTML interface for WYSIWYG web editing? Ofcourse I can see the
>> > possibilities to use vi for web editing too but it should really work as an
>> > general text-editor component IMHO.
>> [...] 
>> > I've heard that the new Anjuta is a program that is using bonobo components
>> > heavily. It would be really great to see gnome-vim working in that app.
>> 
>> Oh yes. I downloaded Anjuta, seeing if it had the potential to
>> eventually being used in our company as an IDE. Turns out that version
>> 0.1.7 already seems to do just about everything you'd want such an
>> environment to do (makes me wonder what 1.0 is aiming for. World peace?
>> Antigravity?). The one and only thing missing is getting vim embedded -
>> the others are happy with the editor - scintilla, I think - but my
>> fingers stray to vi bindings too often for it to be practical for me.
>
>If it is just key bindings, I'm sure one can modify Scintilla to get
>whatever keybinding you want. However, Scintilla has lots of other
>functionality, for example dropdown autocompletion and calltips, which
>are non-trivial to implement in VIM (Try 0.1.8 to see what I mean).
>
>Anyone interested in adding basic VIM keybindings to Scintilla ? I must
>admit I'm tempted, since I suffer from VI-mania as well (comes from
>working long hours on *NIX machines, I guess :-). I think I'll raise
>this issue in the Scintilla ML as well.
>
>Regards.
>Biswa.