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The Vi input mode for Kate is “done”
68Please see http://kate-editor.org/kate-vi-mode/ for an updated overview of the Kate VI mode project.
I just marked the Vi input mode (“V.I.M.”? 
) for the Kate kpart as done in the feature plan for KDE 4.2. It feels a bit weird to mark it as done, though, as there are tonnes of things I want to implement after KDE 4.2.
As you may know this started as a Google Summer of Code project and I’m quite happy with the way things have turned out. Since we are in feature freeze I would like to present the features that will be in the Vi input mode for the Kate part in KDE 4.2.
Kate Vi Input Mode in action – visual mode selection
GSoC is over: The state of Kate’s Vi input mode
2The 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…)
GSoC 2008: Vi input mode for the Kate kpart
0I’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!