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		gnubison on Jan 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that... Implementing a full vi clone seems like a nightmare — the POSIX specification makes me lose hope in humanity :) For instance, what does :delep parse to? I would never have guessed that it was the :delete command with the "p" flag (because :delete p deletes into "p).

tyingq on Jan 20, 2021 [–]

There's a WASM port of Vim: https://rhysd.github.io/vim.wasm/

You can even do "<esc>:e tutor" to run vimtutor. Also, "<esc>:export" does an http download of the current buffer contents.

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