Comment by cassepipe | Hacker News Reader

Comment by cassepipe | Hacker News Reader

That's great ! I have been looking for such a quick online vim experience for quite some time.

A month ago I did find what I consider to be even better : make of any textarea on any page a neovim instance with the firenvim extension (thanks to which I am writing this comment in neovim in my browser!)

It's not even a vim-like experience, it's literally your configured neovim in the browser !

Somehow I haven't managed to get it to the front page (this is not my creation but I am a big fan since I have been looking for this for so long)

I even get autocompletion and all coding niceties in the little code playgrounds that are all the rage in nowadays tutorials

https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firenvim/

Wow I just looked into that project and it really seems to work great. I really struggled a lot when typing longer responses in my Browser when trying to input my vim commands, so hopefully that will help.

Love Firenvim. Although I think there are different usecases for a vim-in-a-website and something like firenvim (or emacs-anywhere[1], which is what I'm using nowadays, after I've crossed over to the evil side) - as you can use vim-in-a-website from another machine without any setup, like vscode.dev for vscode, for instance. Self-hosting something like this could mean you could add your dotfiles, or maybe even have the website be able to pull a .vimrc from a publicly available dotfile repository, that would be pretty neat.

[1] https://github.com/zachcurry/emacs-anywhere

Ah thank you! I've been using wasavi on Chrome but real-vim may be enough to pull me back to Firefox.

Firenvim is also available on Chrome (although I do recommend using Firefox for browser monoculture avoidance :) ) : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/firenvim/egpjdkipk...

Please give your vote here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/macos-allow-custom-keyb...

If that simple feature gets implemented there'll be at least one more FF user in yours truly. :)

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