Bug 241829

Summary:	Vi input mode doesn't work correctly on KDevelop
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Leandro Santiago da Silva <leandrosansilva>
Component:	Vi Input Mode	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	christoph, emeric.dupont, michal.humpula
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	SVN
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Leandro Santiago da Silva 2010-06-15 17:19:23 UTC

Version:           SVN (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

I'm using KDevelop with katepart's vim input mode, and some vi commands doesn't work into KDevelop. Some examples, x (quit), w (save), search text (/), but text substituition works fine.

Even with "let vim override kate shortcuts" enabled, the editor shows the same behavior.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andreas Pakulat 2010-06-15 19:55:23 UTC

We won't implement any support for this ourselves (as kate does), that would be the wrong approach. Instead katepart's vi-mode should provide the necessary actions and commands and simply send out a signals or something similar we could hook to. Hence re-assigning to kate.

Comment 2 Leandro Santiago da Silva 2010-06-15 22:28:41 UTC

These commands (x, /, q, etc.) work fine on kate editor (and I think in kate-part), but don't work in kdevelop. 

(In reply to comment #1)
> We won't implement any support for this ourselves (as kate does), that would be
> the wrong approach. Instead katepart's vi-mode should provide the necessary
> actions and commands and simply send out a signals or something similar we
> could hook to. Hence re-assigning to kate.

Comment 3 Erlend Hamberg 2010-06-16 09:34:50 UTC

I agree with Andreas, that this is the way it should be done. This is actually worked on by Emeric D. His work can hopefully be merged after 4.5.

Comment 4 Michal Humpula 2015-02-28 15:53:56 UTC

Necessary interface changes are there in KF5 version. The current kdevelop doesn't seems to be implementing the interface yet though.

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2019-05-19 14:58:06 UTC

Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last year and no contributor stepped up to implement it.

The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs.

Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users.
If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it.

If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind,
if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it,
it will expire in a year again.

We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it.

Patches can be handed in via https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann