Re: Fwd: Re[3]: vi key bindings in Abiword on WIndows Xp

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 08:39:41 EST

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    On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Alan G Isaac wrote:

    > This is potentially very cool, but an awful lot is missing.

    True
    There is a seperate bugzilla component for this which gives you an idea of
    how bad it is.
    This was a nice feature but no one has liked it enough to want to work on
    it but I also suspect that it is not widely known about either.

    > Has viEdit gotten past where they were a few years ago?
    > http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/April/0010.html
    > http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/April/0089.html

    Offhand i dont think much has been done it at all, a quick look at the
    bugizlla component should give you a good idea. I certainly dont recally
    anyone mentionioning it much in the past two years.

    > If so, where are the changes documented?

    these changes would only really be documented as part of CVS commit logs
    and comments in the relevant files

    the location (off the top of my head) is roughly something like this:
    abi/src/wp/ap/xp/ap_LB_wiEdit.cpp
    and several other files to try and deal with the various differnt Modes,
    (insert, command, visual mode etc).

    > (Btw, move by sentence was claimed to be implemented but
    > does not work.)

    if you can describe the problem thoroughly it might be relatively easy for
    a developer to get it working if there is already almost working code in
    place.

    > I am a Vim user, so I can speak to some of the desirable
    > additions. But I am really not a programmer, so unless
    > keybindings are particularly easy to customize I cannot
    > contribute at that end.

    While it may not be as easy as other programs i still think you might be
    able to do something to help nudge this along, perhaps asking and
    evangelising elsewhere you might be able to get some Vi hackers
    interested. I supsect there are still simpler things that are missing
    but geting the modes and things to work fully seems more complicated.

    Please do try, Good luck.

    > Cheers,
    > Alan

    Sincerely

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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