Show HN: vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc

Cool. Emacs fans wanting their fix in the browser can checkout ymacs:<p><a href="http://www.ymacs.org/demo/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ymacs.org/demo/</a>

Here's what I really, really, want:<p>$('textarea').vim()

Cloud vi was my side project last week. FYI: I didn't build the editor. I took it from <a href="http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/" rel="nofollow">http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/</a> but modified it a bit and integrated it with <a href="https://www.filepicker.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.filepicker.io</a> to make it much more useful.

Thank you for this. Many people will remember early browsers were also editors; Mosaic and Nexus (or confusingly WorldWideWeb as its earlier name) both had document editing features.

Yum. Though the biggest thing I liked about this was learning about the service 'filepicker'. Smart integration.

Pretty darn nifty, but vim stuff like 'ciw' doesn't work, and also 'C' leaves you in an insert state where your next keystrokes are entered just before the last letter in the line, rather than after the last letter in the line.

Has anyone tried compiling the real vi/vim with Emscripten?

Somehow online vi clones never bother with implementing ^[ (does the same as escape), which seriously impairs me.<p>Is this impossible to implement?

I always get confused when I run apps like this and they don't work initially. If you use Vimium, press i when this starts up.

This appears to be completely static, which is awesome (no server-side required for oAuth thanks to filepicker.io?)

Slight issue: counts do not work in combination with insertion commands. (in other words, you can't use 5i to have something inserted 5 times, or for a more useful example you cannot use 5o or 5O)<p>It's an easy to overlook, for a long time BusyBox's vi didn't like combining counts with o/O either.

Why I can't use this:<p>"This app will have access to your entire Dropbox."<p>Which still happens with pretty much every Dropbox app, despite fine-grained permissions many months ago. Dropbox, love the app, but the company needs a strong developer relations programme to get messages like this out.

Sorry to barge into this thread. There seem to be a lot of vi experts reading it. Perhaps you might consider contributing to this thread also:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145060" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145060</a>

Aah MIT nerds. Pretty cool though - any plans for Github support?

Strike this. My bad.<p>(Original: First thing I tried: dG to delete everything, didn't work. So, it still needs improvement. Now, I'll admin I'm not 100% sure if G is a vim command or a vi one.)

Funny story, the early version of Heroku was an in-browser editor, roundabout October '07. They're vim guys - but it didn't feel much like vim.

Cool! You should add ctrl+c mapping to &#60;ESC&#62;. Thats how I switch out of modes so that I don't move my left hand out of position.

Nice!<p>Too much vim in my browser at once. Vimium didn't like interacting with the window, and interpreted my typing with a back-button action.

Implement text objects and Vim-style fFtT (character searches are repeatable via ; and ,) and you'll have me as a user. :)

This looks really cool. Any plans on sharing/open sourcing the code and going through the process of how you built it?

Any documentation on the restrictions? Commands like :set nu to display line numbers are not available...

Can I embed this as an iframe?

Nice, I'm not a developer, but I could find myself using this a lot.

Thomas... don't you have a startup to be working on? :)

Pressing tab in insert mode doesn't work for me :(

Finally, I've been waiting for this for ages.

so cool. super awesome as-is. if you add evernote support i will go crazy w/ happiness.

Should you help Uganda?

This conflicts with my pentadactyl plugin haha!

Awesome, it's 1987 all over again.

Works in Android better than hn's textareas.. /me wonders how can you screw up a text area<p>Only draw back is having to give up Swype for hackers keyboard, thanks to Swype lack of esc key.