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I have been looking for better text editing when using iPython/juPyter notebooks. This looks like a really cool solution!
First off this is really innovative and wondeful, (the part about vim-plugin), and also that you can use this in dev tools.

I hope this does not come out wrong, but since Vimperator (and Ctrl+I in any textbox field) is already there, I suspect that the marginal benefit we'll get out of it is not worth the immense effort you must have put it into it. Since you're doing such a great job, I think your talent would be better spent in contributing to neovim!

Thank you again, and a great job!

At first I thought its just another vim emulation extensions/plugins that don't really work and are almost useless because you're so used to your customizations.

But then I noticed it mentioning that it can use my vimrc!

Wow! Now you have my attention!

Well I'll be... an improvement on "it's all text" (but those trapped in lesser (eh, I mean prefer other) editors might still want to check it out.

Shame that modern content-editable widgets (wysiwyg google docs, Facebook etc) will probably break this (too - they break text input in general).

While awesome in theory, it seems pretty easy in generic pentadactyl to focus a text field, hit ctrl+i, and have an instance of vim where after you :wq the contents of the buffer will be the contents of the text field.

Also compared to a real vim window this lags terribly.

With the added bonus of your already-configured Vim + plugins.
I'm one of those people that cannot use a browser without vim bindings, so thank you so much for posting this. I'm going to give it a try.

Generally I find that if it's just a standard html form, I actually prefer to have it get piped into urxvt because if I don't want to post it right away, I can simply ':w ~/aaa' and come back later without any worries. Can I do that easily with this?

I also like whenever I come across someone doing something messy in javascript (that isn't being blocked by umatrix), and making me fight them, it's nice to just be able to say, "hey, I'm gonna strip anything I've already typed out of the DOM, give it to me, and I'll give it back when you learn to play nice. No jsoup for you."

So yeah. I like how it is for me. Of course, everyone does. https://xkcd.com/1172/

I've really enjoyed the "It's All Text" extension that allows you to use whatever editor you like to edit text fields.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/

Is there something like this for Google Chrome? Thanks
Oh my goodness, this is amazing. I'm writing this comment using pterosaur. I'm also very happy that it works well with pentadactyl. Great job! Very helpful thing! Before I was using pentadactyl's functionality to open input content in an external editor, but this is so much better.
It seems odd this doesn't use neovim. Wouldn't it be much easier to use neovim rather than raw vim to achieve this kind of result ?
it doesn't work in FF 27.x, but it's a good idea though, integration must be quite good. In the meantime and if integration is not an issue, you could try vim-anywhere which is a more general way to get vim well anywhere =)

https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere

http://sprunge.us/hiFY (personal revision, posix sh)

Did you really mean 27 or meant 37? Because 27 is more than a year old and not one of the long term support releases, so if you're using 27, you're exposing yourself to all sorts of exploits. If you really meant 27, then I can only guess you're trying to avoid the new theme (which started in 29, so you could have been using 28), and that's a poor reason to stay with an old unsupported browser. Upgrade to 36 and use https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/classicthemerestore... instead.
Is there something like this for emacs?
anyone else noticing the window server process taking up a lot of cpu usage?
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As someone who cannot understand the attraction of Vim (and emacs) I can only say oh god why... Otherwise, brilliant use of integration between two usually very seperate programs, nice! This is something I wouldn't have thought posssible
It's interesting to me that this uses your native vim installation. I was expecting vim compiled to asm.js!
And plugin is no longer officially maintained :(