integrate into package explorer, etc? #173
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I'm going to take the coward's way out and say "it's an open source project, you're welcome to implement it yourself and submit a Pull Request!" ;-) Honestly, I'm sure this type of thing is possible but it goes beyond my knowledge of Eclipse programming. You would need to add listeners to each of those views and perform certain Eclipse operations based on key presses. That isn't much more than what Vrapper does now except it only listens for AbstractTextEditor instances. I don't know how to add listeners to other views and perform operations relevant to those views. |
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I kind of like the idea. You could use j/k to move up and down, and l/h to expand/collapse projects. Maybe {/} to jump to different working sets. I'd give that a shot if I could find some decent documentation on the Eclipse API. |
We have had requests from people for easier ways to navigate the package explorer, preferably using the HJKL keys like Vim does. This commit adds a "Vrapper Up Arrow Map" command (and so on for the other 3 arrows) to the General > Keys preference page which can be bound to HJKL. Do note that it should be bound to the "Vrapper Enabled on a View" context to be safe; otherwise you would be unable to type HJKL in any dialog or entry box. As a safety measure the code will also fall back to just inserting the bound keys if Vrapper is disabled or when the focused control is a textbox. Other controls have not been tested because they're not commonly available in Eclipse Views. Fixes vrapper#173.
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We now have something for this in our Unstable Update Site after #820 got merged. Go to the Keyboard shortcuts section in Preferences and search for "Arrow Map" (the screenshot below shows slightly more so ignore the other things):
Now select the "Vrapper Down Arrow Map" shortcut and click in the "Binding" text field, then use it to replace Alternatively you can select "Vim's key bindings" from the Scheme dropdown at the top, but that introduces Vim keybindings for everything (you might want to export your settings before choosing that or you could loose your finely-honed set of key bindings). Anyway, once you click Apply and close the Preferences dialog you can now use those keys to navigate through the package explorer. It emulates the arrow keys, so H and L can be used to open / close the Let us know what you think, at least if you are still using Eclipse at this point. |
Maybe a longshot, but is there any way to integrate vrapper so we can use vim navigation in other views like package explorer, problems, search, etc?
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