vis
A vi-like text editor that combines modal editing with Plan 9's structural regular expressions for powerful text manipulation.
What is vis?
Vis is a modern, legacy-free text editor that combines the modal editing of vi/vim with the structural regular expression command language from Plan 9's sam editor. It provides efficient text manipulation with features like multiple cursors and PEG-based syntax highlighting while maintaining a clean, hackable codebase.
Developers and system administrators who prefer modal text editors and want powerful regex-based editing capabilities without the complexity of vim's extensive feature set.
Vis offers a unique combination of vi's modal efficiency and sam's structural regex power in a clean, minimal codebase that's easy to understand and extend, making it ideal for those who value elegant design over feature completeness.
Overview
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
Use Cases
Best For
- System administrators editing configuration files in terminal environments
- Developers who prefer modal editing but want more powerful regex capabilities
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