Vim

I get nothing but a blank white window.

All I get is a blank screen and can't even create a new file...nothing!

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.

Cursor disappears on tab, not obvious where the file is written (still haven't found it.) Giving up.

I cant save the file on a location there I have access to. I cant copy the file somewhere there I have access too. I cant open a file somewhere there I have access to and edit/save it on the same location. The whole application is just a quick editor without option to save the file and edit it later... all files are written to a /tmp/ location inside the HTML5 virtual filesystem.

Want to give this 5 stars as I am an experienced Vim user and really wanted to have a Chrome version of Vim. Unfortunately, as promising as this is the fact you can't persist your data is a deal breaker. Local persisted would be a start but to make this a killer app it needs to be able to store in the cloud; Dropbox or Google Drive. Once I can actually use this rather than just play with it I'll gladly give it the 5 stars it almost certainly deserved. Right now it's little more than a toy.

Can't save locally. Useless on Chrome OS

I'm a vim user but had to give up trying this version. Here are some issues I experienced after 5 minutes of installing: 1. Slow to load (it loads some stuff, I suppose because it's a non-native app) 2. Can't create new files. Have to use the OS dialog to choose a file to open. 3. Can't edit other files afterwards. Seems to be running in a chroot/sandbox w/o access to your files. Even saving the file seems to be a hack, saving to /tmp and then later that file gets moved to the real file. 4. Mouse and trackpad don't work out-of-the-box, maybe some plugin? But still nothing with "set mouse=a" 5. Already experiencing layout/redraw issues. Missing lines, displaying deleted lines, interspersed lines. 6. App freezes? when using tab key on the command prompt.

Opened files get saved to /tmp and then written to the original path. So while we can edit local files, we can't navigate the file system. Add to that that basic features like tab completion don't work, and any number of other little things you wouldn't know to even worry about, and this isn't the text editor you know and love, even if it is very close.

New to the whole use of Vim, chose it for its use as a lightweight text editor. While it is indeed very lightweight, I realized that there is no way to access the files you make. 3 stars is a mercy here -- I know I can make a file in the explorer first, but I want to add my syntax highlighting. (Lightweight was a must; Chrome tends to run high on memory after running for a while and I don't like needing constant restarts. I wish that I could make my TeX highlightable, though...)

This app ist just emulating something that looks like Vim. But for typesetting, editing and everything, Vim is very good at you can't use it. The files are not saved trustfully and the .vimrc Configurations aren't saved. Im using a Pixelbook and I am glad that the Linux-App (Developer Mode at the moment) works. Still, this chrome extension looks neatly like Vim, and that is all it does.

I can't import my colorscheme into this application, and so did VIMRC file. Now you have to use it on your Chromebook very strenuous!!!!

i cannot find my file after i input ":w xxx.txt". I cannot find it everywhere. I donnot why.

Am able to do vimmy things. Can copy from the clipboard. But can't copy to the clipboard. It's a one way street. When the clipboard works, it's a five stars for sure.

vim is in your shell. CTRL + ALT + T shell vim boom magic!

Can anyone tell how to make it work on windows? How to open file to play with? Thanks

not very useful yet: needs local file storage on ChromeOs and syntax colouring too. But very promising anyway. Keep the good work.

It doesn't see my files. What am I doing wrong?