Provide Vim and Emacs key bindings for the editor

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From r.c.bruno.andre@gmail.com on 2011-05-27T12:35:31Z

Could it be possible to use vim as the text editor in Spyder?

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=669

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From Francois...@gmail.com on 2011-05-27T12:31:48Z

I think the answer is unfortunately no ...
But being myself a fan of vim modal editing and key bindings I'm with you on this point. I could be an awesome feature ... vim really rocks and spyder ide is just awesome: an happy marriage ?!

Some useful links below

Kate as an already excellent vim plugin: http://kate-editor.org/kate-vi-mode/ Emacs as also some vim-mode :) http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VimMode http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Vimpulse Netbeans as the excellent jVi plugin: http://jvi.sourceforge.net/ May I had that Pida succes in embedding vim in a really good pygtk IDE: http://pida.co.uk/ There is also vico, Kommodo edit, Gedit that have vim-mode:
vicoapp.com http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit https://launchpad.net/vigedit/

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From pierre.raybaut on 2011-05-28T03:33:37Z

The short answer is yes on Linux (the simplest way would be to use a QX11EmbedContainer), but no on Windows. Spyder being a cross platform IDE, we won't do things on one OS and not on the other, especially features like this one which would require a lot of work.

The examples provided by François are interesting though. But AFAIK, noone has ever successfully embedded vim in another application on Windows.

Status: WontFix
Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement

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From r.c.bruno.andre@gmail.com on 2011-05-28T07:37:47Z

All the other apps François mentioned look nice, but none seem to be good replacements for spyder (not scientific computation oriented).

It's too bad spyder is held back due to limitations of proprietary plateforms.

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From ccordoba12 on 2011-05-28T07:53:46Z

It's not only that. If we were to embed vim then soon someone else would ask to embed emacs or kate or anybody else favorite editor. That would be a real burden for the development team.

The only thing that would be possible to do is provide vim-like key bindings, as vigedit does.

Just my 2 cents,
Carlos

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From r.c.bruno.andre@gmail.com on 2011-05-28T08:08:07Z

Vi-like key bindings would be great too.

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From ccordoba12 on 2011-05-28T08:43:44Z

Very well then. I'll leave this issue open as an enhancement request, in case somebody else wants to develop it.

Summary: Provide vim-like key bindings for the editor
Status: ContributorNeeded
Labels: Cat-Editor

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From pierre.raybaut on 2012-03-18T14:05:51Z

Labels: -Type-Enhancement Type-Enh

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From pierre.raybaut on 2012-03-18T14:17:01Z

Status: HelpNeeded

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From tbekolay on 2012-06-22T07:33:09Z

There are editors, like Sublime Text 2, that emulate Vi pretty well through a "vintage mode". I'm an emacs user, so I'm kind of itching to put emacs keybindings in Spyder, and it would make sense to have that mechanism somehow general enough to also do Vi-like key bindings.

I'm interesting in implementing such a change (though I'll likely start out with emacs keybindings), but it'll be my first code change in Spyder so it might take a while!

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From ccordoba12 on 2012-06-22T08:27:09Z

Don't worry about it, it could take time. Spyder has a very good shortcut support, which is also configurable. Maybe you could start taking a look at https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/source/browse/spyderlib/plugins/shortcuts.py If you need further help please let us know

Summary: Provide Vim and Emacs key bindings for the editor