Vim

Vim console application running using NativeClient

What is Vim?

"Vim" is a versatile and powerful text editor Chrome extension designed to provide high efficiency in text editing. Built using Native Client, this extension comes with continuous updates and features like open-file dialogue on launch, saving bug fixes, and the capacity to register and handle mime text files. Despite its limitation in simultaneous multi-file editing from the file system, Vim's feature-rich experience makes up for it. Its unique build with newlib enhances its functionality on ARM-supported systems.

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By: Sam Clegg

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Users: 3,000+

Rating: 3.84 (62)

Version: 7.4.0.1356 (Last updated: 2014-06-20)

Creation date: 2014-06-19

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

{"fileSystem":["write"]}
storage
unlimitedStorage

Size: 11.26M

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# 16497 ▲ 97

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Vim 7.4 built using Native Client.

Changes in 7.4.0.1353:

Published directly from the naclports continuous builder.
Present open-file dialog on launch (if launched without a file).

Changes in 7.3.0.8:

Fix bug saving files on ChromeOS

Changes in 7.3.0.7:

Install default vimrc in /usr/share/vim/

Changes in 7.3.0.6:

Register and mime type handler for text file. This finally makes the vim app useful as an actual text editor! (currently only works on chrome OS).
Make $HOME directory persistent so that changes to e.g. $HOME/.vimrc are preserved.

User reviews

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Pros

Google Drive compatibility
Quick and lightweight
Access to .vimrc

Cons

Inability to save files in desired location
Slow to load
Limited functionality compared to native Vim

Most mentioned

Inability to save files in desired location
Slow to load
Limited functionality

Recent reviews

5/5. Not completely functional, but awesome none the less.

A Google user, 2016-07-28

It works...sort of... There is another Vim NaCl app available on the Chrome Web Store provided by avsej. It works much better than this one. For example, when I exit Insert mode and type 'A' to append to the end of the line, the text `--INSERT--` gets inserted on a new line, followed by a bunch of spaces to the column at which my cursor was located prior to the 'A' key being typed. In any case, this is Vim, yet it doesn't work as well as another offering. I hate to be "that guy", but that's just the reality of my experience with this particular app compared to another one.