Vi4D

About The Project

This package provides Vi keybinds for the Delphi IDE. This project is forked from the abandoned Vi-Delphi project which is based on VIDE repository. Thanks to both of those projects for the ideas and foundation. :)

Installation

• Clone the repo
• Open the Vi4D_XXXXX.dproj project file in Delphi (where 'XXXXX' is your version of Delphi)
• Select the Release build configuration
• Right-click the Vi4D_XXXXX.bpl entry in the project view
• Click on 'Install'

Relative Line Numbers

CnWizards (repo) maintainers were kind enough to merge my PR to add relative line numbers and I highly recommend you use it. To use it:

• Install CnWizards, any version from 1.5.1.1221
• In the IDE, click on the CnPack menu, then Options
• In the Wizard Settings tab, find Editor Enhancements, ensure it is Enabled and click on Settings
• Under the Line Number / Toolbar tab, activate Show Line Number in Editor. and then activate Show Relative Line Numbers.
• Voila you now have relative line numbers in Delphi!

IDE Toolbar

The plugin will automatically install a toolbutton on the Custom toolbar, which is used to show the Vi Mode, the current command being typed as well as give the ability to activate/deactivate the plugin. So make sure you have the Custom toolbar shown!

Debugging

Ensure the Host application under Project Options is set to your bds.exe path and run the bpl in debug mode. Note: This does not seem to work in recent versions of Delphi, it works great in D2010 though.

Roadmap

• Support for (maybe) =
• Complete the inside/around featuresets (paragraphs, tags, blocks, word)
• Configurable bindings
• Look at bringing back the DLL debugging doc and project from the original repo, as it seems for newer versions of Delphi debugging bds.exe does not work

Particularities (things that are not planned)

• L goes to last -1 line, due to IDE auto-scrolling if we to to the last line

License

This project is licensed under GPLv3 (see LICENSE). The original codebase is licensed under MIT (see vide-LICENSE).