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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.
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This is absolutely incredible. I never thought this would be possible-- wasm opens a new phase of software development and deployment.
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.
I'd love to have my VIM with my config just available as a web service to use it on every device! That's what I already love about NextCloud and the likes - just one install and every device can access it. If you know how you can also make it secure enough for every day stuff - I think to be really secure going offline is not enough anymore.
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The reason is interesting as well. Paraphrasing from this blog post[0] When you format the ASCII table in four columns, you can see `ESC` and `[` on the same row. Holding `CTRL` essentially ~lops off the first three bits~ subtracts 64, resulting in `ESC` ... ... 0011000 CAN 0111000 8 1011000 X 1111000 x 0011001 EM 0111001 9 1011001 Y 1111001 y 0011010 SUB 0111010 : 1011010 Z 1111010 z 0011011 ESC 0111011 ; 1011011 […
> Holding `CTRL` essentially lops off the first three bits No, it inverts the 7th bit (or subtracts 64). The Linux `ascii(7)` man page has a similar table, but with 2 columns. The first 32 control characters listed there have their "caret notation" character in the opposite column.
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Someone from the era of short usernames on unix boxes, along with "esr" and "rob". To more directly answer, it's Richard Stallman. Known for the free software movement and emacs among other things.
ESR is a poseur who doesn't belong next to those other names.
He never understood software freedom, but as far as I can tell he is responsible for communicating the way that free (as in freedom) software can be competitive in the real world. Before that, all anyone would talk about was how we had to have free software for moral reasons (which I personally believe). He was the one that saw how successful projects were being run, put 2 and 2 together and told everybody else how to do it. I have much respect for ESR and I wish that the good things he has done had a wider audience.
This is pretty dope, but I'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 ...but this is pretty cool :D
Ironically, MS' own ‘ergonomic’ (cough) keyboards have gigantic Win keys, right under the thumbs which are the strongest digits. These keys are great to use on Mac, it's an eye-opener as to how the historical keyboard mutations ended up in just the wrong way for two platforms (and for Emacs).
I could also say some things about the nonsensical shape of keyboards and the moronic replication of the typewriters' staggered key layout...
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The reason is interesting as well. Paraphrasing from this blog post[0] When you format the ASCII table in four columns, you can see `ESC` and `[` on the same row. Holding `CTRL` essentially ~lops off the first three bits~ subtracts 64, resulting in `ESC` ... ... 0011000 CAN 0111000 8 1011000 X 1111000 x 0011001 EM 0111001 9 1011001 Y 1111001 y 0011010 SUB 0111010 : 1011010 Z 1111010 z 0011011 ESC 0111011 ; 1011011 […
> Holding `CTRL` essentially lops off the first three bits No, it inverts the 7th bit (or subtracts 64). The Linux `ascii(7)` man page has a similar table, but with 2 columns. The first 32 control characters listed there have their "caret notation" character in the opposite column.
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> Holding `CTRL` essentially lops off the first three bits No, it inverts the 7th bit (or subtracts 64). The Linux `ascii(7)` man page has a similar table, but with 2 columns. The first 32 control characters listed there have their "caret notation" character in the opposite column.
Is this why the symbol for Ctrl is also commonly the symbol for xor?!
It is the reason why Ctrl+i in a terminal is the same as Tab though. Likewise for Ctrl+m == Enter.
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.
Will change your life man.
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?
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.
Ctr+[ Vim-ing on devices with not physical Esc key makes you get used to this (default configured, no extra keymapping required) Esc alternative :P