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Would be nice to be able to use vim (or any other editor of your choice) in web text boxes.
by orev 8y ago
Would be nice to be able to use vim (or any other editor of your choice) in web text boxes.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoThere are browser extensions that offer this. E.g. the excellent Tridactyl for Firefox lets you pop up a gVim window for any text box if you press Ctrl+i.
- herewulf 8y agoThis has been possible for years with Vimperator and then Pentadactyl. Unfortunately it's awkward and can't take advantage of text fields with real time JavaScript processing (e.g.: Gmail, Markdown preview).
- chansiky 8y agoThere is surfingkeys for chrome. You press `shift+I` to go into into insert mode. [surfing keys](https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys)
- opan 8y agoThis is the logic that makes everyone move their workflow into emacs. A lot of what we do is text editing, so having a good text editor everywhere makes sense. Some programs like mutt can also drop in to your editor of choice when composing an email. Imagine if we all had vim for typing up these HN comments. I'd like something like this to be more feasible. Maybe there could be a standard for forums that gives you vim editing in the same way many give you markdown. It could also be cool to support org-mode syntax.
- feanaro 8y agoImagine if programs knew how to interact with one another and could plumb data between them instead of everything living in one monolithic application.