Vimperator!

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2008-04-13 10:17pm

Found an extension that gives Vim keybindings and behavior to Firefox

http://vimperator.mozdev.org

Looks good so far

Resinence · Post by **Resinence** » 2008-04-13 10:31pm

die vim! die vim! die vim! die vim! long live nano! long live nano! long live nano!

No EMACS!

Nvm, don't want to start a editor war on SD.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2008-04-13 11:02pm

I thought maybe Vympel and RedImperator had a transporter accident, Tuvix-style.

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2008-04-14 08:41am

Galvatron wrote:I thought maybe Vympel and RedImperator had a transporter accident, Tuvix-style.

And you weren't the only one.

Also going to have to add my voice to the 'so what?' crowd.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2008-04-14 12:53pm

"hey guys i have a brilliant idea let's make it so we can view the graphic-rich environment of the world wide web in a text editor"

"oh that's cool that means i can keep using my pentium-133 and score mad nerd cred!"

"yeah this 'world wide web' crap is just flash-in-the-pan anyway eventually people will wise up and we'll go back to something saner like Gopher"

(EDIT: LOL I just looked up Gopher on Wikipedia and it sounds like someone's bitter over this:

Some have suggested that the bandwidth-sparing simple interface of Gopher would be a good match for mobile phones and Personal digital assistants (PDAs),[9] but so far, the Web-fixated market prefers Wireless Markup Language (WML)/Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), DoCoMo i-mode, XHTML Basic or other adaptations of HTML and XML.

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Vain · Post by **Vain** » 2008-04-14 01:01pm

I am a *nix sysadmin by trade. Even as an undergraduate CS major I never would have guessed that I'd end up with such a nerdly profession. That having been said, I love my job.

When I first started out, I found VI to be infuriating. The commands were arcane and the learning curve was more of a vertical line. Now that I've gotten used it, though, I love it. You can edit the hell out of some plaintext once you have gotten the hang of VI. You can also be sure that VI is available on your linux distro, regardless of how light it is. You don't know that a strange system will have emacs, but it will damn sure have VI. It's gotten to the point that whenever I'm editing text, I instinctively try to use VI commands and it pisses me off when they don't work.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2008-04-14 01:23pm

No, the parts of the web that you use are not that graphic rich. There's a difference. Me, I like having inlined images and streaming video.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-04-14 02:57pm

Uraniun235 wrote:"hey guys i have a brilliant idea let's make it so we can view the graphic-rich environment of the world wide web in a text editor"

You mean like the low-bandwidth version of this forum? Plenty of people seem to prefer it that way.

RThurmont · Post by **RThurmont** » 2008-04-16 07:12pm

This would be beautiful in so many ways for both site creators and users. I'm really hoping something like this is standardized, implemented, and catches on, soon. It would be about damn time.

The problem is, of course, is that people see the lack of a standard for web video as an opportunity to attempt to "proprietize" the Internet with their specific software, hence, Flash, QuickTime, et cetera. The problem is that Flash and QuickTime have by now become de-facto standards, and browser support, out of the box, tends to be for them, and only them. Even Microsoft is having a hard time getting people to use Silverlight.

There is nothing about this that is good, and quite a bit that can only be winced about, but, alas.