W cursor movement

A few days ago, on screen-users, Buddy Burden mentioned a discrepancy with
the action of 'W' as a cursor movement key.  (It yanks the current word 
into the
buffer rather than doing a cursor motion.)   I've noticed that there are 
a few cursor
movements which act a little different than expected.  In particular, 
the man page
states: "There  are however some keys that act differently than in vi.  
Vi does not
allow one to yank rectangular blocks of text, but screen does."  While 
that is
technically accurate, vim DOES allow rectangular blocks to be copied, 
but the
commands are totally alien from those in screen.  In my mind, and I think
many people's, "vim" is now synonyous with "vi", so I'm not sure that
the man page is accurate anymore.

I was thinking about revamping the cursor movements to more closely mimic
those of vim..primarily so that I don't have to relearn keystrokes for 
things, but
also to get into the code and get my hands dirty.  I was thinking that 
the .screenrc
could list an attribute, say "use-vim-keybindings" or something which would
activate the changes. 

My question at this point is: can I get write access to the CVS 
repository?  I don't
object to posting diffs, but until I get my mutt configuration worked 
out (or get
over my completely irrational dislike of using attachments) I'm mouse 
pasting
into a graphical mail tool, and it's annoying.  I've never worked on a 
project that
went beyond a single building, and I'm not really familiar with the 
methods for
doing open-source development.  I've been a leech for too long, and I'm 
really
excited at this as an opportunity to contribute back to the community.  
Screen
is a really, really nice tool, and I would love to  be involved.  I've 
been poking
around on the Savannah page, but I'm not seeing how to get access...is it
simple a matter of making the request?  If so, then consider this a 
request!