Web Vi

I had a brief play around with the example, and pretty quickly came across bugs and unimplemented commands (for example: 'b', 'e' and 'O' are missing, but 'o' acts like 'O'). I like the way the cursor changes colour to hint at the current mode.<p>However, what I'd <i>really</i> love would be a bookmarklet I could click to Vi-ify every &#60;textarea&#62; on the current page. I've got "It's All Text" set up in Firefox to open &#60;textearea&#62;s in gvim, but it's still clunkier than editing right there in the page.

Wait, are you kidding? It looks a hell of a lot less convincing than, say, jim: <a href="https://github.com/misfo/jim" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/misfo/jim</a><p>edit: For example, 'A' doesn't work.

The one thing that most vi-mode implementations don't get is that vi(m) is really about the possibility to configure every keystroke. Its not about "j" is "up" and "dd" deletes the current line.

I'm rather skeptical about text editors implemented on top of the canvas element. Mozilla has already tried that with Bespin project and it failed miserably (huge code base, poor performance, limited accessibility).<p>Wouldn't it be easier to just use div element with contentEditable attribute? Currently contentEditable has limited API and a lot of inconstancies across browsers, but in the longer run it seems to be the way to go: <a href="http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2011-08-31/future-editing-web" rel="nofollow">http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2011-08-31/future-editing-web</a>

Here's another example of vi being completely exported to Javascript, but without the canvas element.<p><a href="http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/" rel="nofollow">http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/</a><p>What disappoints me about all these implementations is the absence of text objects, though. I love getting edition words or parentheses using commands such as caw and ci"

Keybindings are way off on non-qwerty keyboards.

The the ACE editor behind cloud9ide.com seems to be undergoing pretty active development (<a href="https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace</a>).<p>There is also a vim mode under development. <a href="https://github.com/Gozala/vice" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Gozala/vice</a>

This is neat. Although, I can't get by without some VIM commands and is there a way to export text?

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