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Comment by IgorPartola | Hacker News Reader

This... Plus Gmail... Man that's fantastic. I have sent an embarrassing number of emails that end with :wq.

Once you try Vim, it's really hard to go back. I also tried using mutt instead of GMail, and while it gets me 90% of the way there, the lack of graphical preview of attachments and things like filters and HelloSign make GMails web interface more useful.

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There are browser plugins that let you edit <textarea> elements in your $EDITOR.

I use "It's all text!" in Firefox for this purpose and it works well; the workflow is pretty simple: focus in textarea, hotkey to switch to vim, save & close buffer to switch back to the browser. (not affiliated, just a user).

You do of course lose rich text formatting.

Anybody know one for Chrome?

I do not... Last time I looked was a couple months ago, and I didn't find anything.

You just made my day, m'am and/or sir.

Yep, I constantly have to delete jj at the end of emails. The cool thing about this port is that mapping seems to work. Naturally the first thing I tried was :inoremap jj <esc>, which I don't think works in codemirror + vim plugin.

Who uses :wq when you can use :x?

Or ZZ

Who uses :x, when you can ZZ?

I save very often using :w. When I want to save and exit my brain is now hard-wired to do :wq. It would probably take a year for me to train myself to use :x, which is arguably just as slow since I have to reach down with my ring finger instead of up. Not saying anyone should switch, just that it would be hard for me to do so.

Oh man, this even has tabs!

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