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

#41

Post by tagx » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 10:22 PM UTC

taylorbuley wrote: post #40

This appears to be completely static, which is awesome (no server-side required for oAuth thanks to filepicker.io?)

It is completely static. I can do everything purely from javascript using filepicker.io to do all the I/O

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

#42

Post by cheeze » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 10:37 PM UTC

sunils34 wrote: post #23

Cool! You should add ctrl+c mapping to . Thats how I switch out of modes so that I don't move my left hand out of position.

Re map your caps lock to esc. How often do you use that stupid button anyways?

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

#43

Post by tagx » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 10:41 PM UTC

davidandgoliath wrote: post #16

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

Thanks! Filepicker was a joy to use and really made this

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

#44

Post by zitterbewegung » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 10:42 PM UTC

brettcvz wrote: post #38

grandalf wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does ymacs open files from Dropbox yet? Github, if you're reading this please make both vi and emacs interfaces available through your web ui :)

[Shameless plug] They could if they use Filepicker.io! Anyone know someone on the project that I could contact?

This person is the originator of the ymacs project . https://github.com/mishoo

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

#45

Post by mmahemoff » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 10:58 PM UTC

Here's what I really, really, want:

$('textarea').vim()

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

#46

Post by mmahemoff » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 11:00 PM UTC

Why I can't use this:

"This app will have access to your entire Dropbox."

Which still happens with pretty much every Dropbox app, despite fine-grained permissions many months ago. Dropbox, love the app, but the company needs a strong developer relations programme to get messages like this out.

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

#47

Post by brettcvz » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 11:02 PM UTC

zitterbewegung wrote: post #44

brettcvz wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[Shameless plug] They could if they use Filepicker.io! Anyone know someone on the project that I could contact?

This person is the originator of the ymacs project . https://github.com/mishoo

Awesome. I'll see what I can do

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

#48

Post by jaggederest » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 11:06 PM UTC

Funny story, the early version of Heroku was an in-browser editor, roundabout October '07. They're vim guys - but it didn't feel much like vim.

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

#49

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 11:10 PM UTC

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

#50

Post by s00pcan » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 11:13 PM UTC

I always get confused when I run apps like this and they don't work initially. If you use Vimium, press i when this starts up.