Can't use it with Github Codespaces (or any VSCode web solution)

[delucca]

Describe the bug
Hi. We cannot use this extension with Github Codespaces or any VSCode web solutions (like code-server).

After the most recent updates on VSCode, now extensions should report their kind. So, if we try to install this extension directly from the marketplace, it simply won't start and throws us this error:

[2021-07-04 18:54:49.980] [window] [error] Cannot install 'Vim' because this extension is not a web extension.: installFromGallery@https://vscodeweb.azureedge.net/stable/507ce72a4466fbb27b715c3722558bb15afa9f48/out/vs/workbench/workbench.web.api.js:1785:27284

If we change our settings.json to the following:

    "remote.extensionKind": {
      "vscodevim.vim": ["workspace"]
    },

Now it installs, but it is extremely slow since with this config the extensions is being handled in the remote host, so basically any j,k or whatever command is sent to the remote host instead of being resolved locally.

If we change the settings.json to:

    "remote.extensionKind": {
      "vscodevim.vim": ["ui"]
    },

It doesn't work. We receive an error saying that this extensions cannot be installed.

[bmarden]

I'm having this issue as well, is there any solution to this? It makes the extension essentially unusable when using code-server.

[bhavitsharma]

+1 any workarounds for this? Installing it remotely makes the UI very slow.

[jsjoeio]

It looks like VS Code just came out with a Web Extensions guide. Hoping that will help provide information for moving this forward. Happy to beta test or help in other ways!

[TooTallNate]

I'm also happy to help test any solution here. Running into the same issue.

Thanks @delucca for posting the config workaround to get it working remotely. Better than nothing for me (yes, I literally can't code without vim keybindings anymore 😂).

[Caleb-T-Owens]

Is there an update on this or an explanation on what exactly doesn't work? The extension installs as a web/browser extension in codespaces, but does not seem to work at all.

[tymon42]

I try to install an old version(like v1.21.3), and it works well.
There is a gif-guide for installing old version extension.
Maybe we could wait for the solution patiently.

[tymon42]

I try to install an old version(like v1.21.3), and it works well.

There is a gif-guide for installing old version extension.

Maybe we could wait for the solution patiently.

Don't work for Safari on iPad Pro.

[deme0607]

I installed the extension for code-server via CLI, and it works.

$ code-server --install-extension vscodevim.vim
Installing extensions...
Installing extension 'vscodevim.vim'...
Extension 'vscodevim.vim' v1.21.8 was successfully installed.

code-server: v3.12.0
VS Code: v1.60.0
Commit: b37ff28a0a582aee84a8f961755d0cb40a4081db
Date: 2021-09-16T20:08:09Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36

[bhavitsharma]

May I suggest using gitpod-io/openvscode-server. It runs vim extension in the browser and it is snappy!

[J-Fields]

This should be fixed in 1.29.1 - please let me know if you're still having this issue on the latest version.

[Caleb-T-Owens]

There is a little bit of input latency in non-insert modes, but it seems to work fine.

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[Choongkyu]

I'm still seeing this issue on codespaces with extension v1.22.1, which appears to be the latest version available.

[kevinaud]

Not working for me either, maybe there was a regression?