Mastodawn

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.

#vim #neovim

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Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

@ploum

#vis is much more than light-#Vim.

https://youtu.be/y41MyOrPt8Q

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.

Vis Editor: Combining modal editing with structural regular expressions

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