firenvim VS uivonim

for leetcode specifically, i use firenvim to start a neovim session in the text area that would normally be leetcode's area and then have an autocmd that looks for "leetcode" in the filename and prompts me to select a filetype.

Yea worth it. As far as good for certain languages over others: text is text. Once you’re more experienced with how (neo)vim works, you won’t want to type anywhere. Like in the browser or obsidian

It's just the popular firenvim system: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

In that case give firenvim[1] a try. It uses your existing config (keymaps, plugins, autocmds, etc).

[1] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

You propably could use https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim inside of overleaf webpage. Althought I haven't tested it.

https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim is the correct link.

If by everywhere you mean everywhere, then take a look on this https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

In general, for "rich text editors", firenvim needs to add special handling. For example firenvim supports CodeMirror (or used to): https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim/pull/623

> Can you make Firefox's form inputs use Vim keybindings?

Do you mean something like this: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim?

I’ve never used Redux, just haven’t cared to look into it for any projects I’ve worked on, but from a quick glance at an example it seems like it could be useful/convenient. Although then again you can write an event dispatcher in like 30 lines of TS, probably with redux-like state with a little extra work, although I’ve never tried, and that could be a bad idea in practice idk.

Instead, Nvim provides an RPC protocol that may be implemented by external GUIs. For example, there exists a plugin that embeds Nvim into Firefox when editing textboxes, GUIs that leverage Nvim's multigrid support to support smooth scrolling, translucent popups, minimaps, etc. such as Uivonim, Goneovim and Neovide, and more.

Porting my (forked, so not all my work) text editor uivonim to use Tauri instead of Electron. PR for those curious is here: https://github.com/smolck/uivonim/pull/336

Of course, I'm biased, since I work on a GUI frontend to neovim written in electron (that I forked from a project that already used electron), but I have found that it's not as bad as people make it out to be, or at least that it doesn't have to be that bad. I would like to get rid of it though if I can, maybe by doing the rendering with wgpu-rs and GUI things with egui.

I came up with this idea one day as something I could add to uivonim and the result was kinda cool; just thought I'd clean it up a bit and share. Not sure if I'll ever end up adding this for-real, but it's at least a little fun to play with ;)