Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim • Hacker News Board

Edit: After looking at the source, this seems to make use of emscripten to reuse Vim's existing source code. This really makes me wonder what other cool things we can bring over to the client side.

Re: Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim

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Post by waitingkuo » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 5:33 AM UTC

Wow, I can use hjkl to move my cursor !!!

Re: Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim

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Post by yepguy » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 5:34 AM UTC

Kinda cool as a demo, but too many vim shortcuts are hijacked by the browser for this to be useful to me.

Re: Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim

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Post by taf2 » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 5:40 AM UTC

fantastic! One issue - I keep hitting is using the backspace key in chrome is mapped to the back button... so it keeps taking me back here..

Re: Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim

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Post by chrismorgan » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 5:50 AM UTC

bilalq wrote: post #3

Really cool! It even supported doing things like: inoremap jj `^ Backspace ended up triggering the browser's back action though. Other than that, this is really nice. Edit: After looking at the source, this seems to make use of emscripten to reuse Vim's existing source code. This really makes me wonder what other cool things we can bring over to the client side.

… There are still browsers that use backspace for navigation?

(I'm a little surprised by this because I've seen so many complaints about it leading to data loss.)

Re: Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim

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Post by wging » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 5:54 AM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #7

bilalq wrote: post #3

Really cool! It even supported doing things like: inoremap jj `^ Backspace ended up triggering the browser's back action though. Other than that, this is really nice. Edit: After looking at the source, this seems to make use of emscripten to reuse Vim's existing source code. This really makes me wonder what other cool things we can bring over to the client side.

… There are still browsers that use backspace for navigation? (I'm a little surprised by this because I've seen so many complaints about it leading to data loss.)

Chrome and Firefox. Probably IE too.

Re: Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim

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Post by cauliturtle » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 6:04 AM UTC

nice but `backspace` then I returned to > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899072

Re: Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim

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Post by marveller » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 6:07 AM UTC

I use Vim for everything, this is great!