> -----Original Message----- > From: Yongwei Wu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 1. juni 2007 07:32 > To: vim@vim.org > Subject: Re: OT: Vi in a browser... > > On 31/05/07, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edward L. Fox wrote: > > [...] > > > A friend told me that he is developing a Firefox addon to emulate the > > > Vi/Vim behaviors in all text areas in Firefox, without launching > > > external applications. I'm looking forward to it. > > [...] > > > > I don't think any "Vim extension" aiming at reproducing Vim's behaviour > > without actually calling it, will be able to come near the result of the > > gazillions of man-hours Bram (with a few others) has put and is still > putting > > into it. Many browsers are able to interact with "any external editor" > (such > > as true-blue Vim) these days, which also means that any bugfix or > improvement > > to Vim gets reflected in the editing behaviour of the browser. Or you > could > > always write the text in Vim, then use the clipboard to paste it into > the > > browser, even with no special "external editor" function. > > Agreed. Maybe Edward should persuade his friend to use the OLE > interface of Vim instead. > > Yongwei > > -- > Wu Yongwei > URL: http://wyw.dcweb.cn/
Personally, I don't agree with you. When editing short text items on web pages, I feel that the overhead of copying/pasting back and forth from vim is too much. I am currently using the "View Source With"-addon, which is great, but I would actually prefer a limited vi-implementation for use inside Firefox. So, Edward, please post to this list if/when your friend has something that we may try out :-) Thomas Svensen Senior Solutions Engineer FAST
