1. one word: vim

Posted at 9:43PM on Jul 4th 2008 by adamziegler

2. "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 9:49PM on Jul 4th 2008 by cenotaph

3. 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 10:06PM on Jul 4th 2008 by 2bithacker

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

Posted at 10:35PM on Jul 4th 2008 by diy audio projects

5. 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 12:29AM on Jul 5th 2008 by Disapointed User

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

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

7. "in its day"? When did vi(m)'s day end? =)

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

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

Posted at 5:46AM on Jul 5th 2008 by shashank

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

Posted at 11:00AM on Jul 5th 2008 by Matt Williamson

10. 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 11:16AM on Jul 5th 2008 by a.p.t.

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

Posted at 8:35PM on Jul 5th 2008 by Nguyen Truong Tho

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

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

13. 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 12:12PM on Jul 6th 2008 by dandin1

14. @10(a.p.t) it could be obstruficated (god knows how to spell that).

Posted at 3:17PM on Jul 6th 2008 by Ali Raheem

15. '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 1:24AM on Jul 7th 2008 by cloudhackix

16. 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 5:45AM on Jul 7th 2008 by Marc Lucks

17. @#9: Good luck writing the first all-Javascript operating system =-)

Posted at 1:10PM on Jul 7th 2008 by James

18. 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 4:59PM on Jul 11th 2008 by thouters