From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2002-12-13T18:00:03+09:00
Subject: Re: The coolest thing since sliced bread

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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:55, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:21, Iain 'Spoon' Truskett wrote:
> > An awful lot of effort reinventing the wheel. I suspect it would
> > make more sense having FreeRIDE have editor plugins where we can
> > just plug in our existing editors.
>
> I agree. Actually, what I've often wondered is why someone doesn't take the
> guts of editors like xemacs and gvim and make it such that they can be
> components (as in just another window pane) in other applications.  Let's
> face it, most of what I want from Vim is the editing functions.  Surely
> that's completely orthogonal to the other functions of an IDE.
>
> I accept that you'd probably need some kind of bindings somewhere, to allow
> the IDE to say, please open this file, save the file, etc.  But, surely
> that's a very small effort, compared to trying to shoe-horn the entire set
> of key bindings from one editor into another?

Hi Harry,

They have it's called the vim Kpart for KDE :) FWIW on their project page they 
describe the difficulties they have encountered in trying to make a vim 
component http://www.freehackers.org/kvim/vimpart.html

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Signed,
Holden Glova
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