[O_W_Grant]

What I mean is that vim is a program that runs on your pc. Of course you can ssh to it from anywhere if you wish, but it seems to be over complicated just to write a text from any point of the world.

[JadeNB]

There seem to be plenty of (vim-ish)-in-the-browser solutions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3109847/is-there-any-onli...

That's from 4 years ago, and the latest answer from over a year ago; I wouldn't be surprised if the situation were better now.

[gherkin]

What makes writing text locally any better?

[O_W_Grant]

i do not know, for me having a tool available from almost any device via internet is better than having one only at my pc.