Contributing

[adriaanp]

Was going to do an extension myself, would love to contribute.

Are you guys starting from a reference project or from scratch? I was thinking of porting the atom vim-mode extension to vscode.

[jpoon]

@adriaanp that would be awesome! I've been using atom/vim-mode as an inspiration for the command/insert mode work, but haven't been porting it directly.

[adriaanp]

Any idea on what I can work and focus on?

[jpoon]

We should probably get a bit more organized and make a task list of things we need to do.

I've been working on the basics of the different modes and a bit of the navigation keys within command mode: #16. No work yet has been done with the visual mode. @guillermooo has been working on the command console (e.g. :wq).

Feel free to party 🎉 on whatever you think we're missing or most pressing.

[ahmedshuhel]

@jpoon I would like to contribute too. I tried atom/vim-move earlier and found it to be unusable most of the time. I don't know why, may be because atom is slow in general. If your experience is same, we have to be careful about it.

[jpoon]

Feel free to implement your favorite VI command.

I just merged the toggling between various modes: command, insert, visual with the following keybindings:

• Command Mode: h,j,k,l (navigation)
• Insert Mode: a, A, i, I, o, O

We also need to make everything more testable. That might mean setting up a pattern for testing VSCode UI (ie. where the current cursor is, the status bar item) or mocking everything out.

A quick one might be to figure out how to publish this to the extension gallery.

[gosukiwi]

Not sure where to put this, but I find Visual Blockwise Mode quite important. I know the implementation should be hard, atom's vim-mode doesn't support it.

Any plans for adding that feature?

[DennyScott]

Hey guys, I've been working on a previous vim project for vsc, but your guys project looks really promising! I've ported over most of the selection mode over from atom-vim, what state is selection mode in currently? I can try integrating them :).

[jpoon]

@DennyScott we have nothing atm for selection mode. Most of the effort has been with command mode and handling the various commands :wq etc. Feel free to help with selection/visual mode.

[jpoon]

We now have a contributing.md so please refer to that on how to get started.