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Re: Vim.wasm

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post #119

Where’s the escape key on my iPhone?

Android at least lets you install custom keyboards - and there are hacker keyboards that have escape on ... Very useful for SSH and termux.

iOS has the same feature: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Re: Vim.wasm

#152
post #22

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.

Exactly. The first question that came to my mind is: "are the keystrokes logged?"

Re: Vim.wasm

#153
post #123
post #83

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Yeah, right. As if Flash ( http://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ ), PNaCL ( https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/reference/pnacl-b... ) never existed.

CrossBridge is a cross compiler. Where is the open source flash runtime?

GNU Gnash and Lightspark.

Re: Vim.wasm

#155
post #88
post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasm is company and technology independent and went through the proper process for becoming a standard rather than being forced in by some corp hoping to take over the internet. It also doesn't have any of the security issues because its limited to things JavaScript can do.

Both alternatives that I mentioned, Flash and PNaCL did have open source implementations available, it is just a matter of following the links I posted. WASM doesn't offer any security over internal data corruption as buffer access within linear memory aren't validated for data bounds or nullability. So it is possible, for a WASM module generated from C or C++ code, to provide input data to its functions in such a wa…

> Both alternatives that I mentioned, Flash and PNaCL did have open source implementations available, it is just a matter of following the links I posted.

You know that open source is not the same thing as open standards, right?

Re: Vim.wasm

#157
post #145

Does anyone know if lynx plans on supporting wasm? I'd like to try this editor in a terminal.

You might be on to something here. I could see this editor working really well in a terminal environment.

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Re: Vim.wasm

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My test for "non-native" Vim is always 'q:' which should open a command line window of previous commands at the bottom of your screen - unfortunately that does not work.

Furthermore I can't use 'Ctrl-v' that let's you select a column of text (EDIT: correction, this does work).

'q:' should not be captured by the browser? Nevertheless impressive work.

Re: Vim.wasm

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RMS is the Terence McKenna of open source: a fundational figure whose ideas where way ahead of the curve, but also a too extreme to attract the mainstream.

Just curious. In what way was Terence McKenna ahead of the curve? All I've heard from him seems really crazy. Suggesting the most plausable explenation for the origin creatures you speak with on DMT is that they're other dimensional aliens (or something close to that). I'm really confused to why so many people whom I respect find him insightful.

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Re: Vim.wasm

#160

My test for "non-native" Vim is always 'q:' which should open a command line window of previous commands at the bottom of your screen - unfortunately that does not work. Furthermore I can't use 'Ctrl-v' that let's you select a column of text (EDIT: correction, this does work). 'q:' should not be captured by the browser? Nevertheless impressive work.

ctrl+v works fine for me (firefox windows)
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