Post #531197

2025-02-05 22:33 UTC

Over the last couple of evenings, I put together a prototype for editing a @hedgedoc document from Neovim! 🎉 This involved forking the rust-socketio crate to add support for Socket.IO 2.x, slightly extending our @ethersync editor plugin, and writing some &quot;connecting glue&quot;. Not quite ready to publish – but would this be interesting/useful for any of you? EDIT: In the long run, this would support any editor that has a plugin speaking the Ethersync Protocol, see https://ethersync.github.io/ethersync/editor-plugin-dev-guide.html :)

Replies (11)

@blinry@chaos.social 2026-05-06 19:53

I'm trying to get the @teamtype@fosstodon.org – @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org bridge into a publishable state this week, to allow you to edit HedgeDoc documents using editors like Neovim and VS Code! I could use your help to decide which HedgeDoc versions we should support: Could you go to the main page of your favorite HedgeDoc instance, scroll to the bottom, and check which release is linked from the "Source Code" link? 🙏 (If you use multiple instances, feel free to check for all of them, the poll is multiple-choice.)

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@ljrk@todon.eu 2025-02-05 22:34

@blinry@chaos.social @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org @ethersync@fosstodon.org OMG, yes, very much! Especially since HedgeDoc 2.0 lacks vim support right now 0:-)

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@scy@chaos.social 2025-02-05 22:34

@blinry@chaos.social Oh, absolutely! This looks great!

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@DerMolly@toot.kif.rocks 2025-02-05 22:36

@blinry@chaos.social @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org @ethersync@fosstodon.org Looks cool.

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@tinguin@chaos.social 2025-02-05 22:38

@blinry@chaos.social Yes, please! @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org @ethersync@fosstodon.org

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@emcrx@infosec.exchange 2025-02-05 22:57

@blinry@chaos.social This is so cool to see!! When I started working on HedgeDoc I always thought it would be nice if it could be used cross-editor... I hope that HedgeDoc 2.x will be even easier to integrate with Ethersync but I feel sanguine as both use CRDTs under the hood and the new WebSocket API should be more developer friendly than socketio.

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@chrysn@chaos.social 2025-02-05 23:01

@blinry@chaos.social @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org @ethersync@fosstodon.org This would be super useful. All note taking that happens at #IETF happens in hedgedoc, and while it's nice that it works for everyone, I keep fighting the editor's behavior. Replacing that fighting with muscle memory attuned to my trusty .vimrc would free up valuable brain cycles of those who sketch protocols live while talking.

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@yonk@chaos.social 2025-02-05 23:13

@blinry@chaos.social @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org @ethersync@fosstodon.org omg yes please, this is literally something on my eternal list of side projects I will never get to, but it would make my life so much better!

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@schrottkatze@social.nekover.se 2025-02-05 23:19

@blinry@chaos.social @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org @ethersync@fosstodon.org how does this work? is it LS based (read: could be adapted for helix) or sth else?

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@kronn@ruby.social 2025-02-06 06:04

@blinry@chaos.social @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org @ethersync@fosstodon.org This seems awesome. Like many others this is/was on my personal list of things I want to see getting better in the world.

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@tuxflo@chaos.social 2025-02-06 07:30

@blinry@chaos.social @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org @ethersync@fosstodon.org YES! Would be useful and interesting to me.

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