ed VS Vis

ed

GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts.

Vis

A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions.

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2022-03-20

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2023-07-26

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Vis 35 Radom Review & Range Test

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to ed and Vis)

Vis

Text Editors

28 28%

Text Editors

72% 72

Software Development

33 33%

Software Development

67% 67

IDE

28 28%

IDE

72% 72

Security & Privacy

100 100%

Security & Privacy

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

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ed mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of ed yet. Tracking of ed recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Vis mentions (33)

A tutorial for the Sam command language (1986) [pdf]
If you'd like to try out the sam command language yourself, there's an X11 port that works quite nicely on modern POSIX systems: https://github.com/deadpixi/sam. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Why Kakoune
> Kakoune gives you: > Small and understandable core. > Proficiency with POSIX tools, and maybe even some programming languages other than sh. > Structural regular expressions as a central way of text manipulation. > With multiple selections created via regular expressions, acting upon regular expressions. > Fresh take on the modal editing paradigm. I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0] which imho... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
The Text Editor Sam by Rob Pike
If you want an editor that uses Sam's structural regexes with keyboard-focussed vi-style interaction, you might be interested in https://github.com/martanne/vis. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Can we write a Neo-vim Successor using rust?
Not Rust, but there's vis which aims to be a Vi(m) inspired editor with Sam's structural regular expressions. Source: 10 months ago
Met that guy one the train yesterday
I do not use vim nor a WM nor a Thinkpad, but I do use vis. It's great. Source: about 1 year ago