Because of slop concern, @drewdevault is forking Vim to make Vim-classic with the laudable goal of "not changing anything"
https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html
What’s funny is that I’m, at the same time, toying with "vis", which is Vim without a lot of things I don’t use (tabs, file browsing, network, GUIs…).
https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/vis/
In the removed list, the only thing I use heavily is EX mode. So I must investigate how they replace it.
#vis is much more than light-#Vim.
I would argue that it is much more powerful than any #Vi-compatible editor because of the extreme power of structured regular expressions (from #Plan9 sam(1) http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf) and native support for multiple selections.
@ploum Interesting, #VisEditor modal editing with built-in support for multiple selections combined with #SamEditor's structural regular expression based command language.
cat-v.org is down for me right now but https://jeremywsherman.com/2012/02/27/sam-s-structural-regular-expressions/ gave a nice introduction.
I wonder if anyone has written up a comparison to the multiple cursors in modal #HelixEditor beyond https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/7292 ?
ploum
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