I’m one of the lucky students doing a Google Summer of Code project for KDE, and I would like to introduce my project. I’m making a vi-like, modal editing mode for the Kate kpart. I’m doing this because many people—me included—find using a vi-like editor much more efficient and pleasant than using a non-modal editor. Especially for editing code. This will of course be an optional mode, and if you don’t want to use it, you will never notice it. This should be obvious, but I want to mention it because I have already gotten a reaction from a Kate user who were frightened to death when he heard the word “vi” and feared that I will destroy his beloved Kate. Fear not! :-)

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