Search the web like a real vi user
Kim Schulz, saturday d. 14. october 2006
If you, like I, use the editor Vi (or the better alternative Vim), then you might find my latest web finding amusing. Someone has created a search page that emulates a lot of the functionality of the editor Vi. You move around the page by pressing j (move down) and k (move up). You can go into insert move by pressing i and then you can add comments to the search results (:w to save the changes). You can search for a term on the page with /term, and move to next math with n and N. There is ofcause a help system which you can get to by pressing :help (in normal mode of cause). You can even change the layout colors by setting the appropiate settings:
:set bg=white
(unfortunately only black or white).
So where is this very cool search page you ask. Well where else than http://www.visearch.com.
Unfortunately this text-based page does not work in....tada...text-based browsers (Links, Lynx etc). Well they can't get everything right the first time.
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