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Re: Vim.wasm

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Post by dguaraglia »

jniedrauer wrote: post #48
nyx wrote: post #7

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. We brought this abomination on ourselves.

We have strayed too far from RMS's light

RMS is the Terence McKenna of open source: a fundational figure whose ideas where way ahead of the curve, but also a too extreme to attract the mainstream.

Re: Vim.wasm

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Post by chrisshroba »

xissy wrote: post #35
nyx wrote: post #7

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. We brought this abomination on ourselves.

Same here.

Same, curse you vimium!

Re: Vim.wasm

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Post by daveFNbuck »

closeparen wrote: post #50
sbr464 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try: Ctrl and [ That should send the same as Esc (ASCII 27). I seem to remember this working on a new iPad Pro keyboard.

Standard adaptation for touchbar Macs, too. I find it less of a disruption from the home row.

Caps lock is right on the home row.

Re: Vim.wasm

#55

Post by marquis-chacha »

beefsack wrote: post #47
techntoke wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just use regular Vim and not think that everything needs to run inside of a web browser, especially if you value user privacy and computer resources.

Don't immediately hand wave away the value of these sorts of things. I don't think anyone would use this as their primary editor, but I'd love something like this in our merge request / code review process, as that's currently entirely browser based already.

Makes more sense for that process to move to the editor than for the editor to move to the browser. That way you keep all your plugins and whatever other context the same regardless of what you're doing.

Re: Vim.wasm

#56

Post by Jedi72 »

jniedrauer wrote: post #48
nyx wrote: post #7

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. We brought this abomination on ourselves.

We have strayed too far from RMS's light

Who is RMS?

Re: Vim.wasm

#58

Post by semi-extrinsic »

orev wrote: post #42
techntoke wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just use regular Vim and not think that everything needs to run inside of a web browser, especially if you value user privacy and computer resources.

Would be nice to be able to use vim (or any other editor of your choice) in web text boxes.

There are browser extensions that offer this. E.g. the excellent Tridactyl for Firefox lets you pop up a gVim window for any text box if you press Ctrl+i.
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