Show HN: vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by tagx » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:20 PM UTC

ganeshts wrote: post #9

tagx wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not at the moment. It supports most of the standard unix vi commands but not the enhanced vim ones as of yet.

Ability to edit files off Box / DropBox is a big plus. Is there a mailing list or something like that (some RSS feed for a development blog) where I will be able to see when updates are made? I would like to start using this as soon as features like vertical column selection / yanking and pasting as well as line numbers are put in (the nature of the files I have on DropBox call for those features :|)

Feel free to join this google group https://groups.google.com/group/cloud-vi

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

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Post by Ives » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:20 PM UTC

Strike this. My bad.

(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.)

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

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Post by tagx » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:25 PM UTC

tvladeck wrote: post #10

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

Sign up for the google group I created here https://groups.google.com/group/cloud-vi and I'll let you know when I add evernote support

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

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Post by brettcvz » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:26 PM UTC

Ives wrote: post #12

Strike this. My bad. (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.)

dG works for me

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

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Post by DanBC » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:27 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by davidandgoliath » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:27 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:30 PM UTC

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

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Post by jlgreco » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:34 PM UTC

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)

It's an easy to overlook, for a long time BusyBox's vi didn't like combining counts with o/O either.

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

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Post by kjhughes » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:36 PM UTC

Cool. Emacs fans wanting their fix in the browser can checkout ymacs:

http://www.ymacs.org/demo/

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

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Post by Ives » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 8:37 PM UTC

brettcvz wrote: post #14

Ives wrote: post #12

Strike this. My bad. (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.)

dG works for me

Hah, I just realised what caused it. I have one of those vim-browser plugins and it apparently caught some of my keypresses and didn't pass them on.

Sorry about that, it's definitely cool.