Vim.wasm

I thought I was getting stuck in insert mode, and I got fairly frustrated before realizing my Vim keybindings browser extension was grabbing ESC and keeping it from this weird browser-Vim.<p>We brought this abomination on ourselves.

Does anyone know if lynx plans on supporting wasm? I&#x27;d like to try this editor in a terminal.

The GitHub readme has a bunch of great content on it. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rhysd&#x2F;vim.wasm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rhysd&#x2F;vim.wasm</a>

This is absolutely incredible. I never thought this would be possible-- wasm opens a new phase of software development and deployment.

<p><pre><code> :colorscheme unknown &quot;that&#x27;s weird :set file^I^I &quot;I guess tab autocomplete doesn&#x27;t work :set filetype=cpp i#include &lt;iostream&gt;&lt;Esc&gt; &quot;I guess syntax highlighting doesn&#x27;t work either :set tabstop=4 softtabstop=4 i^I^I &quot;at least that worked!</code></pre>

Where’s the escape key on my iPhone?

This is pretty dope, but I&#x27;m terrified about the fact that Firefox lets it take over Ctrl+L, Ctrl+1, or any other way (that I can find, at least) of breaking out of Vim with a keyboard aside from closing the tab with Ctrl+W - which is even more terrifying since I use that in Vim a ton, too :O<p>...but this <i>is</i> pretty cool :D

I wonder if this will be useful for electron based editors like vscode&#x27;s vim plugin. I know the plugin is &quot;good&quot; but I always find something that works in vim and doesn&#x27;t in the plugin and end up going back to my terminal.

The timing on this is really interesting for me. I&#x27;ve been working on a full web vim product (plugins, multi-session, cloud storage, backup, etc.) and I&#x27;m pretty close to a beta product (POC is fully functional, just polishing a few rough edges). If anyone is interested in hearing more, email me at webvimbeta@gmail.com

Running on Firefox and `Shift` generates a `^P` character.

Not sure if it&#x27;s a bug or user error (not sure if writing is supposed to be supported yet), but after doing the following, the page becomes nonresponsive:<p>:o test.tx :wq I get an fsync failed error and I&#x27;m told to press enter or type a command to continue.<p>I can&#x27;t do either.

I am impressed that<p><pre><code> :imap jk &lt;Esc&gt; :imap kj &lt;Esc&gt; </code></pre> works great. However it seems like outer and inner text objects aren&#x27;t working at all. E.g. daw, ci)

Perhaps it’s because I block web fonts but once I start typing little turds remain where the intro text was.

:! cat &#x2F;etc&#x2F;passwd<p>[blocked]<p>sorry can&#x27;t help myself trying this. but good job!

I see many comments on broken key combinations. Obviously, we need to somehow overcome a UI&#x2F;UX limitations of the applications that run inside a browser if we&#x27;re moving into browsers with the consumer apps. I wrote a dedicated article on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;database.blog&#x2F;trello-hot-keys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;database.blog&#x2F;trello-hot-keys&#x2F;</a>

sorry for being dense, but I can&#x27;t seem to save files or do anything seemingly practical. Is there any practical use cases for this library, or is this purely along the lines of &quot;Hey checkout this cool hack!&quot;

My test for &quot;non-native&quot; Vim is always &#x27;q:&#x27; which should open a command line window of previous commands at the bottom of your screen - unfortunately that does not work.<p>Furthermore I can&#x27;t use &#x27;Ctrl-v&#x27; that let&#x27;s you select a column of text (EDIT: correction, this <i>does</i> work).<p>&#x27;q:&#x27; should not be captured by the browser? Nevertheless impressive work.

&lt;ctrl-w&gt;w closed my browser window. Should have seen this one coming.

I was hoping :w with filename would download the contents :D

Unfortunately it&#x27;s not working on my android phone with hacker keyboard (full keyboard with esc). There are also horizontal lines across the screen that should not be there.

Good work. Almost there.<p>Things that doesn&#x27;t work starts from where you might need to change word &quot;ciw&quot;, visually select word &quot;viw&quot;.

My take on vim web version: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;exitvim2.win" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;exitvim2.win</a>

Now I really can&#x27;t quit the internet

Trying to save errors out with &quot;E667: Fsync failed&quot; and then it gets stuck.

How do Emscripten cross-compiled things and WASM compiled things handle the display? Is it a framebuffer they blindly draw to, do they need shim layers added to interpret normal output to window-scaled in-browser output?

Also see previous discussion about the code on the GitHub repo <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17487936" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17487936</a>

Any plug-in support? Could I upload my vimrc to a server, then download it, apply it, and run :PlugInstall to get my vim setup in any web browser?

very cool, some of the set commands don&#x27;t seem to work for me... set softtabstop for example didn&#x27;t appear to work. also i might have a local setting but tab complete with set wasn&#x27;t working... again probably local settings. and :w wtf didn&#x27;t work :D seems to crash it. This is super cool<p>[update] ah i see from the readme write support is in the todo list.

Why does it completely freeze on :w foo ? It asks for ENTER or any key but that doesn&#x27;t work at all at that point.

pretty fun as an experiment. It would be so cool if someday github&#x2F;gitlab had this as an option for editing files

On mobile I see a blank gray page. Perhaps this only works on desktop browsers. I still have no idea what it is.

Think I crashed it. Did a :w foobar and got an error and the page was stuck, with the computer fan ramped up.

i had to turn off adblock plus and ublock origin to get this to work for some reason

Will wasm ever use html&#x2F;css properly? Or will it just be more like flash?

I can&#x27;t save.<p>:w test<p>&quot;test&quot; E667: Fsync failed Warning: original file may be lost or damaged.

:q! is not working! Help, I can&#x27;t exit.<p>But seriously, this is great work.

Try inputting some diacritics, it breaks spectacularly.<p>Just tried ą ę ł etc ;)

Next step will be to bundle this in an electron app.

Does this get us any closer to being able to edit text fields using vi keybindings? I&#x27;ve tried some of the plugins (long ago) and was underwhelmed with the experience.

Is there a good iOS port of Vim available?

What is the use case for this?

Vi, the original roguelike.

This is so cool! Well done!

How can i save a file ?

Lol. Why no :Explore?

Fucking touchbar.

Don&#x27;t do :wq

Sounds like a great fun little project. Shame it doesn’t work.

diw or ciw doesn&#x27;t seem to work :(

Looks good!<p>How can I close it?

Why was wasm used for this? It&#x27;s not a javascript replacement as stated by webassembly.org.