VIM Keybindings on Editor?

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Hello friends, i have been looking for some vim keybindings that may works on defold editor.
because i think the editor was similiar to eclipse, that already has a plugin for it .
if you have some references about this, i’d be glad to see …

thanks

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I don’t think that Eclipse plugins works, but you can try. Also, bear in mind that editor 2 is not built on top of Eclipse so you won’t be able to transfer any keybindings and such. It will probably be possible some time in the future to write a vim-plugin for editor 2.

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ah i see , i think i just gonna keep using standard keybindings,
really hope to see the plugin come

thanks M

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Slightly off topic, but i’m wondering about the Editor 2.

If it’s not built on top of Eclipse i’m guessing it will be quite different compared to the current one.
Is it still worth to invest time in the current editor for a team or is it better to wait for Editor 2?

Thanks!

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The new editor will look and feel the same (except with a more beautiful UI), and it will be backward compatible. So it is definitely worth investing time to start working with the current editor.

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Thanks @Ingela_Garneij, that’s great to know!

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Just in case you missed it, the content of your project are located on your hard drive, so editing them with VIM is very straightforward. Currently, they are stored in a peculiar location (use the context-menu of a file and select “Show in Explorer/Finder/etc” to find out where). This is redeemed in the upcoming Editor 2.0 where you can select an arbitrary, and more easily accessed, location for your project. For those of you interested in Defold-trivia, the pre-determined location of project files comes from a combination of an early idea years back of storing everything in the cloud, Eclipse’s way of storing things and our REST api. We are moving away from that now though.

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I would be really happy if there is an option to use vim keys, but for the current solution, I guess I need to use an external program but I don’t think it will have lesser features.

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