The Google summer of code programme’s coding part officially ended this Monday. That won’t be the last you will hear from me, though. Kate’s vi input mode has turned out to be quite nice, and there are lots of improvements I want to do in the coming months. The biggest news are a visual mode + visual line wise mode. Visual mode is one of those things that really make vim stand out from all of the vi clones, and having support for it makes Kate’s vi input mode it much more usable for me. (more…)