Web-based Vi text editor hits the web: text-edit from anywhere!

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Web-based Vi text editor hits the web: text-edit from anywhere!

by Danny Mendez May 8th 2008

That popular Unix and Linux text editor known as Vi is now the proud brother of an online clone that should run in most javascript enabled browsers. It's called jsvi, and now you can write your own programs and HTML code from anywhere!

Such remote locations include but are not limited to:

your local library
the internet cafe down the street from work
your aunt's house
those weird McDonald's locations with internet computers inside
the boss' laptop
Russia

On a more serious note, the Vi simulator works with nearly all the traditional keys and substitution commands, and you can copy/paste from the clipboard. It also includes a built-in spell checker for those long-night moments when you've stared a word for too long and can no longer remember how to spell it. Does that happen to other people, or is it just us?

Tags: editor, jsvi, text, utilities, utility, vi, web-based, web-based tools, Web-basedTools

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

j35t3r said 3:36PM on 5-08-2008

Wow, I thought the spelling thing only happened to me!

Ed Roberts said 5:02PM on 5-09-2008

I can't believe someone made a javascript version of Vi. I'm fully disturbed now. NO ONE should even want to attempt to duplicate the chaos that is Vi.
:q!

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