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

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Post by sbmassey »

tagx wrote: post #29
sbmassey wrote: post #25

Pretty darn nifty, but vim stuff like 'ciw' doesn't work, and also 'C' leaves you in an insert state where your next keystrokes are entered just before the last letter in the line, rather than after the last letter in the line.

I just fixed C. ciw doesn't work since I've only implemented vim stuff for now but I may slowly add in vim features if there is demand for them

Oh well, if you're fixing them, I've a couple more issues:

'^' goes to the first character in the line, not the first non-whitespace character

'o' is not undoable using 'u' (those most other things are, strangely)

Thanks!

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

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Post by tagx »

mmahemoff wrote: post #46

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.

Is there any other way to get an arbitrary file from your dropbox into a text editor?

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

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Post by mmahemoff »

tagx wrote: post #52
mmahemoff wrote: post #46

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.

Is there any other way to get an arbitrary file from your dropbox into a text editor?

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/announcements/11

"We've introduced App folders: app-specific folders that Dropbox will automatically create and keep track of, even when users move or rename them."

I assume that means a fine-grained folder instead of the scary "entire Dropbox" situation. It was introduced on 8 months ago, but there's little detail on it.

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

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Post by mmahemoff »

[deleted] wrote: post #55
mmahemoff wrote: post #45

Here's what I really, really, want: $('textarea').vim()

[deleted]

Decent, but really the context shift is too intrusive for everyday use. I use vim on command-line (with set -o vi), so it's not like a regular textarea is too small for it to be useful either.

EDIT: Deleted parent link was http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/

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

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Post by tvladeck »

tagx wrote: post #13
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

awesome! will do
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