ploum1d ago

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

A eulogy for Vim

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@ploum Curious what sort of thing you use ex mode for, if you don’t mind my asking?
Mar 26 at 11:54amIceCubesApp
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@normalmode : all those :s/OLD/NEW/g stuff and similar tasks for which I know the ed/sed command.
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@ploum Ah, you just meant entering ex commands by typing colon? Not the non-visual ex mode you get into by typing Q?
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@normalmode : indeed. I forgot about that "ex mode". I may have read about it but I don’t remember anything.