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wasavi is an extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. wasavi changes a textarea element to virtual vi editor which supports almost all the vi/ex commands.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2014-09-11 · latest 2025-12-10

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  1. …'wasavi' chrome extension which hasn't been updated in 8 years [0] and the website's down [1]) [0] https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi [1] http://appsweets.net/wasavi/
    comment by nomilk · 2025-12-10 · in Making macOS Bearable
  2. Looks like the last commit was in August 2017. I don't see it in Firefox's add-on search. https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi
    comment by dcre · 2024-12-19 · in Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client
  3. You might like Firenvim or Wasavi: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi qutebrowser (and some others) also allow spawning vim from inside a text area, and reading the result back when the file is saved. I…
    comment by The-Compiler · 2024-10-22 · in Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
  4. I just did. There's an .xpi file in the releases page: https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi/releases/tag/v0.7.737
    comment by ravila4 · 2023-01-16 · in Wasavi – Vi editor for any webpage
  5. …I've tried that attempt to ~shellout to $EDITOR and then sync back to the input area. [0] https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi
    comment by finnh · 2022-12-04 · in Show HN: Using Vim as an input method editor (IME) for X11 apps
  6. …and found many other people had also commented with examples- only different ones. Here’s another: https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi
    comment by LeonB · 2020-08-05 · in Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020
  7. …which is a browser extension that allows you to use Vim commands in most text windows you can edit. https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi I use it on a daily basis and although it's not Vim it's still pretty good.
    comment by Bananaman28 · 2019-12-03 · in Big Pile of Vim-Like
  8. If you just want a vi/vim toggle for your browser, wasavi[1] is what you're after. https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi
    comment by davewongillies · 2019-03-18 · in Vim Anti-Patterns (2012)
  9. Wasavi does exactly what you want: http://appsweets.net/wasavi/ https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi
    comment by davewongillies · 2019-02-26 · in Linux Desktop Setup
  10. You might like this - https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi I'm hoping it's ported to Firefox when webextensions are ready.
    comment by hammerandtongs · 2017-05-02 · in NeoVim 0.2.0 released
  11. I use wasavi, https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi , which does exactly what you describe.
    comment by bagofmostlyh2o · 2016-12-07 · in Azure Jupyter Notebooks
  12. …if this is plausible or absurd, but wanted to at least discuss it publicly. Edit: Wasavi on Github: https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi This behavior does also exist for those accustomed to Vimperator, Pentadactyl or It's All Text plugins,…
    comment by deltaprotocol · 2016-08-29 · in Advanced Deanonymization Attacks