index.markdown

<style> html, body { position:relative; height: 100%; } body { position:relative; background-color: #ccc; } .content { position:relative; height: 100%; } h1, h2, h3 { font-weight: 700; font-family: 'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif; text-transform: none; } #vim { position:relative; height:40%; background-color:#111; border-radius: 3px; padding: 10px; } </style>

js-ViM

To bring the popular vi clone to the web

It's likely that the future of applications is online.

Alan Kay on the web Bill Gates on the web Who wrote about thin clients?

Web the World Forward

Why is ViM a good

Today's argument in favor of thin-clients is not a prediction but the reality of cloud services. We store our code online. Microsoft Office has been replaced by Google Docs.

• Among the most popular tools in the developer toolchain, used by a significant portion of developers.
  • The net gain of having ViM online is large
• Designed to work in slow environments.
• ViM itself began as a clone of vi.

What do we get?

• Use ViM for day-to-day editing tasks
  • google docs
  • gmail
  • you name it
• Use ViM in new development environments
  • GitHub
  • Cloud9

<script src='./vim.js'></script>
<script>
	var el = document.getElementById('vim'),
		text = el.innerHTML
			.replace('<','&lt;')
			.replace('>','&gt;');
		el.innerHTML = '';

	vim.edit({
		el: document.getElementById('vim')
	});

	vim.text(text);

	vim.exec('G')
	vim.exec('$')
</script>