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VimSpeak
- cleverjake 13y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBMlXRjhZY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBMlXRjhZY for the lazy
- a3n 13y agoPeople. On your front page, you must always say what your thing is. Referring to some other thing that I've also never heard of is not telling me what your thing is. This drives me insane.
- SeoxyS 13y agoThe VimGolf example is incredibly cool. http://toogl.es/#/view/qy84TYvXJbk http://toogl.es/#/view/qy84TYvXJbk
- eliasmacpherson 13y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy84TYvXJbk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy84TYvXJbk noscript blocked your link for me.
- arthulia 13y agoThe README should really say what VimSpeak is. I don't want to have to watch a video about another similar application just to figure out what this is.
- alexpopescu 13y agoFor everyone thinking this is a text-to-speech plugin for vim (boring): it is not. It's a voice controlled vim (quite cool).
- tambourine_man 13y agoThis is so freaking cool. Don't know if I'd use it all day, might end up switching RSI for a sore throat, but sure is cool. Maybe on a smart phone… without the virtual keyboard, the entire screen is free for displaying code. And typing on that tiny thing isn't that great anyway. The thought of using Vim while laying on the couch is also enticing. Your significant other may think you finally lost your mind after hearing you speak to your editor, though.
- DennisP 13y agoOr combine with Google Glass and code while walking in the woods :)
- gfodor 13y agoI always worried how I would code if suddenly lost the use of my hands. This gives me hope it wouldn't be a life-ending disaster!
- mmorett 13y agoThe 80 year old editor that just will not die. Which reminds me I need to fill my lamp with kerosene. Wouldn't wanna adapt to electric powered lighting.
- mmorett 13y agoBait taken. Side bet won. Point proven. Thou shalt not criticize VI/VIM/Emacs or anything remotely Linux related on HN. Now let's see if we can get enough downvotes to put me in negative territory.
- mackwic 13y agoCould you possibly imagine that keyboards are even older than vim ? And people still use it. Incredible. :-)
- mmorett 13y agoIn the absence of another more advance means of communicating with a computer, keyboards are all we have. Mice help, new touch screens help, but the big one (I think) could be voice. And I have no idea what Google Glass uses, but that's another potential example. With VIM, it's not that it's an editor, or old, but downright archaic. Folks just won't let go.
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- x1024 13y agoOpen source is only as old as its latest commit. https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/list https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/list Which, in this case, seems to be 5 hours.
- fmoralesc 13y agoAlso, one of the last commits (patch 924) is a HUGE deal for someone like me who has written plugins in python (global, window and buffer-level options can be now set using vim's python API). Let's hope mappings come next!
- chankey_pathak 13y agoAmazingly awesome!
- thomasjames 13y agoA similar project using Emacs and really clever use of Python and Dragon Naturally Speaking SDK was my favorite presentation at PyCon this past year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
- reirob 13y agoHow can I make this work on Windows and Linux? Is the code F#?
- DennisP 13y agoYes, it's F#. I just got it running in Visual Studio. I suspect the speech recognition library is Windows-only.
- DennisP 13y agoWow this is timely for me, yesterday I was thinking about doing exactly this. I had no idea it could be done in so little code. I'm thinking along slightly different lines: a short syllable for each key, optimized for easy pronunciation in frequent combinations, so I can speak the commands really quickly. I figure it won't be any harder to learn than Vim was in the first place.
- xer0x 13y agoThat's awesome! Tavis's emacs setup is amazing!
- hawkw 13y agoSpeech recognition is cute as a tech demo, but I doubt it'll be very useful in the Real World.
- DennisP 13y agoTavis Rudd is using it in the real world, and says he's faster with it than typing. There's a link to his presentation on the github page. He advocates it for anyone, but for people with RSI it'd especially be a godsend.