Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)I jotted down some thoughts on the future of editors like #Emacs and #Vim in the age of AI https://batsov.com/articles/2026/03/09/emacs-and-vim-in-the-age-of-ai/
I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts on the subject as well.
Omar Antolín@bbatsov Good piece! One minor correction: I think you completely misunderstood the purpose of the Evi fork!
You wrote: "The Vim community recently saw the creation of EVi, a fork of Vim whose entire raison d’etre is to provide a text editor free from AI integration."
I don't think the main goal of the fork is to keep users from integrating AI into their workflows, I think the main purpose is to avoid having LLM-generated code in the editor's source itself. You'll notice that they forked right before the first publicly recognized LLM-generated commit. And it's not like they have added any code that would keep you from using any of the AI integration plugins you describe in the post.
@bbatsov Oh, now that I've seen your other post¹, I think I just misunderstood how you use the term "AI integration" and you have the same understanding that I do about why EVi was created. Sorry. But I would posit that your wording is confusing and others are likely to misread it the way I did.
Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug) (@[email protected])
Seems someone's so unhappy that #vim and #neovim accept AI-assisted contributions that they forked vim https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi/issues/1 Seems like a somewhat pointless uphill battle to me. If the contributions are of high quality and solve real problems they are perfectly fine in my book. It's not like the number of C, VimScript and Lua experts has been growing a lot in recent years. ;-) AI agents might help make some niche technologies less niche, which is not a bad thing...
@oantolin Yeah, that's a fair point. Poor choice of words on my part - I'll update that.
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@bbatsov @oantolin Hi, I'm the creator of the EVi fork! Not sure what this said originally, but what it says is correct.
"The Vim community recently saw the creation of EVi, a fork of Vim whose entire raison d’etre is to provide a text editor free from AI-assisted (generated?) code contributions."
I hard-forked the last non-AI commit of VIm to make an AI free VIm, no slop code.
As a result, we've been rebranding away from VIm too.
Happy to see EVi get coverage though, so I thank you greatly!
P.S: If you want a bit more on what we mean by AI free, you can read our CONTRIBUTING.md here: https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi/src/branch/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
