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• 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 / 6 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 / 7 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

• Helix: Release 23.03 Highlights

  > They either break from Vim's model (kakoune, helix) or follow Vim along with all it's flaws (Neovim, Vis). I am sincerely curious of what flaws from Vim has Vis inherited, in your opinion. I have the impression that the design idea of Vis is taking only the modal design of Vi (not Vim), plus the structural regular expressions of Sam, then make it as clean as possible with programmability via Lua plugins. In... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C

  Made me doubt about my fidelity towards vis[0] but then realized mle does not have vi-like modal editing. [0] https://github.com/martanne/vis. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• I use Vim but don't use any of its extra functionality

  Friendship with Vim ended, now Vis is my best friend. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to do this in Neovim?

  You should also try vis, it has multi cursor support as well as structural regexps from sam features. The migration should be fairly easy because vis is also configured in lua, although I still haven't given it a proper try because I've been writing most of my code on my phone lately and vis doesn't have mouse support, so it'd be even more of a pain to use. Source: over 1 year ago

• Multiple cursors feature is equivalent of macros with live feedback

  FWIW, true multiple cursors (and other stuff) I actually use mostly https://github.com/martanne/vis (more than actual neovim), but it is for truly hardened among us, not if you just dream about your replacement of VS Studio. Source: over 1 year ago

• Seeking feedback on command line syntax highlighter

  I basically just stripped out chunks of the Vis editor. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Elitists

  Then saw other people recommending vim and how it improved your workflow despite its learning curve. And I was like "if I have to learn something new, at least that it's worth it". So ended getting used to vim (and with the years ended using neovim, and now vis). Source: almost 2 years ago

• OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems

  Vis looks like a very minimal but thoroughly modern alternative. https://github.com/martanne/vis. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Tell ONE terminal app you use everyday but no one seems know about the app

  My text editor is vis. It "aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam). It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command language.". Source: about 2 years ago

• Structural regular expressions are awesome. Where to get some?

  Also, I already use vis so I guess I'll be playing a bit with SE within my editor from now on. But I think making some awk scripts using SE could be great. Source: about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?

  Recommend vis[1]. Also, take a look at https://texteditors.org/ to discover new editors and resources on design and implementation [1]https://github.com/martanne/vis. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Introduction to the Sam Text Editor

  I learned about sam's structural regular expressions after learning about vis[1] on a post in this website. It aims to combine the modal text editing from vi(m) and sam's structural regular expressions, plus some cool stuff like multiple cursors or a Lua API. I feel more comfortable with it than sam's given than I'm not as much as a mouse person but a keyboard person (even though being a graphic designer). It's... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• The helix-editor has amazing IDE like features, why don't we?

  BTW, if you like super simple vi-like editors, I would suggest vis to your consideration. Source: over 2 years ago

• How do you select multiple lines that contain a certain pattern within a certain range of lines

  Just a side note: that's exactly what I was talking about at https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/8457 . In vis I can do:. Source: over 2 years ago

• $EDITOR

  Vis or plain old vi, or many other simple vi clones. Using nano for simplicity is basically stupid. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is VIM suckless

  Vis is another alternative: https://github.com/martanne/vis. Source: over 2 years ago