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Use The Vi Text Editor In Your Web Browser

type vi online

If you keep hearing about vi ("vee eye") from your Linux friends but never had a chance to experience this powerful text editor yourself, here’s something for you.

A web hosting company called "Internet Connection" has written a clone of Vi in Javascript that lets you run Vi inside any web browser. You don’t have to install any software.

This online vi-clone is known as jsvi and it supports almost all the regular vi keys and substitution commands. There’s also an inbuilt spell checker plus you can copy-paste text from the clipboard.

The other standard option is VIM - a desktop based Vi client that’s more advanced than the main Unix version and is available for all platforms.

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Published on May 6, 2008 under Internet, Tools
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Reader Comments

#1 Priyankeshu Parihar 05.06.08

If it moves along this way i guess day wont be far that you would be able to use an Operating System over the web.

I wonder if we can have a firefox online ?

#2 Carsten Ullrich 05.06.08

I don’t want VI, I want emacs!!!

#3 x 05.07.08

#1 = There are many online OS already - http://www.google.com/search?q=Online+OS

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