Thursday, April 28, 2011

Vi for any Windows APP using AutoHotkey

Is it possible?
Well of course not. But with some work we can get close enough to make
editing text much more fun. In some cases its not useful to use Vim, eg
if you want to use existing "IDE" features of tools such as Delphi 2009.

Is anyone interested in helping extending such an implementation?

I've already done some work:
https://github.com/MarcWeber/autohotkey_viper
Some stuff stuff is based on the work of "Kylir Horton"
who started this project a long time ago.

which already implements 10k 3w etc.

However visual selection is still msising.

For arbitrary visual selection you'll either have to use edit less than
200 lines, have a goto line command implemented or wait .. until your
editor is processing 500 times {Down} key press..

Its not perfect, but a lot better than nothing.

Write me on irc or by email if you want to help get this into a usable
even more usable shape.

Of course this works for any borwser based text fields etc.

Marc Weber

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