AppGrid VS heirloom-ex-vi

Compare AppGrid vs heirloom-ex-vi and see what are their differences.

AppGrid

macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys (by mjolnirapp)

heirloom-ex-vi

The Traditional Vi (vi with many enhancements from Gunnar Ritter) (by n-t-roff)
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AppGrid heirloom-ex-vi
1 5
638 60
0.9% -
0.0 0.0
over 1 year ago 5 months ago
Objective-C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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AppGrid

Posts with mentions or reviews of AppGrid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-28.

heirloom-ex-vi

Posts with mentions or reviews of heirloom-ex-vi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-28.
  • Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jun 2022
  • OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2022
    Using Carsten Kunze's actively maintained continuation of Gunnar Ritter's (outstanding) traditional ex/vi project is highly recommended. See https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi/.

    The parent project on SourceForge hasn't had any activity for 15 years, nor a release in 17+ years, but still contain various known bugs, all of which are fixed in Carsten Kunze's project.

  • POSIX command line editing standard?
    1 project | /r/commandline | 28 Jul 2021
    Attempting this clone of traditional vi from GitHub instead of SourceForge (the SF version lacked libuxre which was available on the GH version), it looks like heirloom ex also cleared the screen, unlike ed(1).
  • The Unix EX Editor by Bill Joy (Basics)
    1 project | /r/unix | 5 Jun 2021
    I came across a more recently updated copy of that code which works with modern terminals "out of the box", and includes other bugfixes: https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AppGrid and heirloom-ex-vi you can also consider the following projects:

rubocop-daemon - Makes RuboCop faster

nvi2 - A multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD