Unbelievable!!! Maybe Linux on web will be soon released :D

Posted at 9:36 pm on Jul 4th, 2008 by Nguyen Truong Tho

one word: vim

Posted at 9:38 pm on Jul 4th, 2008 by adamziegler

“but no one has done anything to bring it back until now.”

So, you’ve some how managed to completely miss Elvis (http://elvis.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/), WinVi (http://www.winvi.de/en/), *and* Vim (http://www.vim.org)? Wow, some vi user you are.

Although these are more than “just vi”.

Posted at 9:48 pm on Jul 4th, 2008 by cenotaph

Very cool. Could turn it into a Greasemonkey script, then I could ditch “It’s All Text”, which I currently use to edit textareas in vi.

Posted at 10:03 pm on Jul 4th, 2008 by 2bithacker

Yeah, vi clones have been going strong for a while. I’ve been a regular user of vim since the mid 90s.

Posted at 10:34 pm on Jul 4th, 2008 by diy audio projects

Bring it back? It’s never gone anywhere.

$ which vi
/usr/bin/vi
$

nvi > vim

Simon says author is a lame Windows toad.

Posted at 12:29 am on Jul 5th, 2008 by Disapointed User

sweet now just need a javascript bookmarklet to
inject this into any webpage

Posted at 1:30 am on Jul 5th, 2008 by Magnade

“in its day”? When did vi(m)’s day end? =)

Posted at 4:54 am on Jul 5th, 2008 by Arkku

hey
is there any smart text editor other than this…
http://hackiteasy.blogspot.com

Posted at 5:22 am on Jul 5th, 2008 by shashank

How about emacs implemented in JS? That would be sweet.

Posted at 9:36 am on Jul 5th, 2008 by Matt Williamson

’s a fine line between “hack” and “pushing JS to it’s limits”, but I have to say this one at least amused me (vim4life

Posted at 9:48 am on Jul 5th, 2008 by cloudhackix

Seeing as javascript is an interpreted language, rather than a compiled one, I’d be really impressed if this wasn’t open source.

Posted at 11:11 am on Jul 5th, 2008 by a.p.t.

Real nutcases (like me!) will apreciate the vimperator, an addon for firefox that brings Vi-joy to this browser (I switched from Epiphany to firefox so I can use it!)

check http://vimperator.mozdev.org/

My first question was, how do I click links: well press ‘f’ (or ‘F’ to tab-open) and all links will be highlit and fitted with a number… just type the number!

Posted at 11:48 am on Jul 5th, 2008 by thouters

No one has seen it, because Sun owns it. You have to worry about copyright and the like.

Posted at 9:32 am on Jul 6th, 2008 by Kevin

Unlike vi, Emacs is its own OS and environnement, good luck trying to implement it in javascript, certainly the lisp interpreter.

Now excuse me as I c-x c-s c-x c-c. :D

Posted at 12:08 pm on Jul 6th, 2008 by dandin1

@10(a.p.t) it could be obstruficated (god knows how to spell that).

Posted at 3:16 pm on Jul 6th, 2008 by Ali Raheem

Made some small changes to make the colors right on every page and to hide the toolbar:

— vi_orig.js 2008-05-06 21:31:01.000000000 +0200
+++ vi.js 2008-07-07 11:08:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -3643,6 +3643,7 @@

suggest.style.position = ‘absolute’;
suggest.style.display = ‘none’;
+ suggest.style.color = ‘#000000′;

backing.tabIndex = -1;
backing.style.position = ‘absolute’;
@@ -3665,6 +3666,8 @@
tools.style.position = ‘absolute’;
tools.style.right = ‘0px’;
tools.style.bottom = ‘0px’;
+ tools.style.color = ‘#000000′;
+ tools.style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
tools.innerHTML = ”
+ ‘<input tabindex=”-1″ type=”button” value=”B” style=”font-weight:bold;” onClick=”term_command(\’:F!b\’);” />’
+ ‘<input tabindex=”-1″ type=”button” value=”I” style=”font-style:italic;” onClick=”term_command(\’:F!i\’);” />’
@@ -3697,6 +3700,9 @@
term.style.cursor = ‘default’;
term.style.fontFamily = ‘monospace’;
term.style.fontSize = ‘100%’;
+ term.style.backgroundColor = ‘#ffffff’;
+ term.style.color = ‘#000000′;
+ term.style.textAlign = ‘left’;
_zmp(term);
term._formelement = t;
document.body.style.overflow = ‘hidden’;

After that i added two filters to my Proxomitron:

“” => “

Posted at 5:14 am on Jul 7th, 2008 by Marc Lucks

@#9: Good luck writing the first all-Javascript operating system =-)

Posted at 12:16 pm on Jul 7th, 2008 by James