[Geany-Devel] Lua script idea: vim overlay

[Thrawn]

I'm thinking of producing a Lua script to give a vim-style interface to Geany. Anyone interested?

My thoughts at this point are that you'd invoke the script using a keyboard shortcut, probably Escape, and it would then grab all of your keystrokes and recognise (a subset of) vim commands, until you issue a shortcut to exit the script.

Most vim commands are pretty easy to translate into cursor movement and copy/cut/paste operations. Insertion could be achieved simply by placing the cursor and exiting the script; pressing Escape would appear to be jumping back to 'command mode', but would actually be re-invoking the script.

Anyone's thoughts on whether this would be worth making?