If you've seen my blog, you know I love Vim. And if you've worked with me, you know I hate when I have to use editors like Microsoft Word because I have to take my fingers off the home row so much to select text, frequently change its format, and generally get around and edit what I'm working on. I worked on a 72-page report last week where I lamented this extensively. Over the week, I started to think: what stops me from turning the keystrokes I want to type into the keystrokes I am typing?
For instance, when I want to move the cursor between words, I use Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right. And when I want to select several words, I hold down the shift key. I started to wonder how hard it might be to create a keyboard hook that would translate Vim-style shortcuts (like b, w, v, ...) into their Windows hotkey equivalents (Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Right, Shift, ...).
Well, I tried it out, and yeah it's a bit of work, but it's worth it! I don't have screenshots or GIFs because it's hard to make it evident what keystrokes I'm using, but if you're a tinkerer then take a look and try it out. I think you'll be amused!
Get the source code under my GitHub profile at https://github.com/strictlymike/vimifier.
If you need a bare bones compiler to get this built, the quickest shortcut I know of is to grab the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7.
