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My wife and father both use the Samsung ARM chromebook (guess who doesn't like tech support). I was a CR-48 tester too. I love ChromeOS, but I'm kind of disappointed in how little uptake there has been of NaCl. In particular, if there were a way to run a decently feature-filled emacs in a tab, I'd probably make the jump.

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This makes me think - is there any reason you couldn't compile Emacs or Vim in Emscripten, and adapt it for the web? Maybe with some kind of in-browser terminal emulator? Quick googling suggests no one has tried this yet... I find that surprising.

(The Vim bindings in CodeMirror[1] are surprisingly decent, but it's still not the real thing.)

[1] http://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html

Stuff like this is where search in its current form fails.

Action.IO allows for browser based coding, and potentially development in the cloud. Heroku started out doing development in the cloud before they pivoted to PAAS.

I watched the video. That's cool, but not what I had in mind — they're running Vim on a remote server, not in the browser itself.

I've been using https://github.com/chjj/tty.js/ to vim on my pixel, with tty.js running on my linode.

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