Based on our record, Vis seems to be a lot more popular than vile. While we know about 33 links to Vis, we've tracked only 3 mentions of vile. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I've found vile a good option as I'm addicted to syntax highlighting: similar speed to nvi, much faster than vis and vim. https://invisible-island.net/vile/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
I actually prefer vile ... But vim has become the de facto standard, so I have to learn vim. Source: about 2 years ago
No! The only true editor is Vile - Emacs with vi commands. Lol. Source: over 2 years ago
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
> 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
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
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
I do not use vim nor a WM nor a Thinkpad, but I do use vis. It's great. Source: about 1 year ago
Traditional Ex - Vi editor - The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix.
Micro - Modern terminal-based text editor
Vim - Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
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4coder - Minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment for low level programming.
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.