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I have been eagerly waiting for a good web-based text editor and dev environment since it is the only real desktop app that I still use - but this isn't it

I wish somebody would just write a vi port in js and put it online with a simple file store and git/hg. I started that project a while ago but gave up on it

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Tried http://cloud9ide.com yet ? It's crappy/buggy/slowy now but will be great when beta ends.

Hasn't cloud9 been in the works for almost 5 years? Hasn't it always been "almost there"?

tried it again today and remembered that I tried it a long time ago. It is more like a web-based eclipse with bugs rather than a simple text editor. for some reason it doesn't work with my bb repo's. looks promising, but just not something I would use

vi is not a trivial piece of software to port.

Besides, I think you could just use a browser SSH client to accomplish what you mentioned.

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