Envi is Not VI

envi is like if vim had a children with dwm at a party organised by mosaic. envi is a web-based vi-like editor with a tiled dynamic buffer management layout. envi is also able to stream edits to an envi-stream server and enables its user to subscribe to each others edit streams in real time.

Core Principles

envi is a web-based collaborative editor built with the following 4 principles in mind:

• efficiency : no mouse. vi edition. dwm buffer management. what else?
• open-source : envi local server as well as stream servers are entirely opensource
• collaborative : you can see what your team mates are working on in real time (read-only)

Architecture

• envi-srv : a server to serve the editor and files locally (listening to 127.0.0.1)
• envi-stream : a streaming server for WLAN edits streams (one per organization or the public ones)
• envi : an executable letting you open local files in your browser directly from the command-line

Dependencies

envi is based on:

• ACE (with a whole new vi key binding)
• nodeJS
• socket.IO (for read-only edit streams)

Getting Started

$ git clone git://github.com/spolu/envi.git
$ cd envi/srv
$ npm install
$ node app.js
# Go to http://127.0.0.1:35710
# ctrl+shift+enter to open a new editor
# :e FILENAME to open a file

Get Involved

IRC ChanneL: #envi (freenode)

Contributors

• @spolu (Stanislas Polu)
• @AdrienGiboire (Adrien)