*** January PLUG meeting - ECLIPSE ***

[Ross Werner]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Bryan Sant wrote:
> Right.  I'm not sure how much of that tutorial would be applicable to
> what you want to do, but at least some of it will be helpful.  You do
> ultimately have to deal with the plugin API at some level.

Well, thanks to your links and some helpful people on #eclipse, I've 
managed to figure out an approach that looks like it will work quite 
nicely. In "normal" Eclipse, there's a Binding Manager that catches all 
events that match the list in Windows->Preferences->General->Keys and 
executes the appropriate commands.

My plugin disables the default Binding Manager and sticks my own Listener 
class in there, which catches all key events sent to Eclipse. If we're in 
"command mode", it swallows the events and executes a movement command 
instead; if we're in "insert mode", it simply passes the event along 
untouched unless it's an <ESC>, in which case it swallows it and changes 
to command mode.

So far I've got "iIaAbwhjkl$0" implemented and working nicely. A pretty 
pitiful subset of vi's functionality, but not too shabby for an evening's 
work :)

 	~ Ross