heirloom-ex-vi
The Traditional Vi (vi with many enhancements from Gunnar Ritter) (by n-t-roff)
dotfiles
.files (by iloveitaly)
| heirloom-ex-vi | dotfiles | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | |
| 59 | 11 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 9.3 | |
| 5 months ago | 11 days ago | |
| C | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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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?
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OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems
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.
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POSIX command line editing standard?
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).
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The Unix EX Editor by Bill Joy (Basics)
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
dotfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-28.
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Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on?
- ZSH w/fzf and lots of fun plugins (https://github.com/iloveitaly/dotfiles/blob/master/.zsh_plug...)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing heirloom-ex-vi and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:
nvi2 - A multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
OpenVi - OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems
AppGrid - macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys
neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
rubocop-daemon - Makes RuboCop faster
pEmacs - pEmacs - Perfect Emacs
Compactor - A user interface for Windows 10 filesystem compression
heirloom-ex-vi vs nvi2
dotfiles vs multipass
heirloom-ex-vi vs OpenVi
dotfiles vs AppGrid
heirloom-ex-vi vs neovim
dotfiles vs supabase
heirloom-ex-vi vs AppGrid
dotfiles vs rubocop-daemon
heirloom-ex-vi vs pEmacs
heirloom-ex-vi vs multipass
heirloom-ex-vi vs Compactor
heirloom-ex-vi vs rubocop-daemon