ACE (Ajax Code Editor) VS kindaVim

I used a note system built on top of Fossil as my primary system for quite a while. Here are the details in case anyone is interested. Fossil allows CGI extensions[1]. There's a database for tickets, but that's just a regular SQLite table that you can use to store anything you want, and it's version controlled and queryable. I stored the notes plus metadata in the tickets database. The CGI returned HTML with the... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Hey there! Thanks for reaching out. Writing a code editor with syntax highlighting in a browser can be a little tricky, but it's definitely doable. One resource that might be helpful is the Ace Editor library (https://ace.c9.io/). It's a lightweight but powerful editor that includes syntax highlighting for a huge range of languages. You could also check out CodeMirror (https://codemirror.net/), which is another... Source: about 1 year ago

The frontend uses the ace editor for syntax highlighting and then sends all the "text" you have typed to a python backend. The backend then writes all the text to a temporary directory and calls the compiler using subprocess (something similar to os.system). Source: over 1 year ago

It is built using Reveal.js and Ace, and is a simple markdown presentation tool right in the browser. Source: over 1 year ago

This would cool to use as an embedded editor browser plugin. Surfingkeys' quirky vim emualation editor, Ace, could be replaced. For example. I think there are other plugins that emulate vim or remotely use neovim, but this approach would be so much better. Source: almost 2 years ago

For MacOS there is https://kindavim.app/ which will turn any input text into a vim modal input text. I don’t fully use it all the time, but depending on your keyboard (I use the moonlander) you can set different layers to give you some motions that resemble vim. I find that is good enough for most cases. Source: 10 months ago

However, I remembered a third-party application called kindaVim (Mac OS only) that I once tried. Source: 12 months ago

I’ve been using kindavim, this looks more powerful though, gonna try it out! https://kindavim.app/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Https://kindavim.app/ - This option appears to be the most complete, although it is subscription-based and has limited documentation. Source: about 1 year ago

Just took about three years of daily engineering: 1. Vim motions everywhere: https://kindavim.app. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago