C Vim

Open-source C projects categorized as Vim

Top 22 C Vim Projects

  1. nnn

    n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

    Project mention: Building a TUI is easy now | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-13
  2. SaaSHub

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  3. sc-im

    sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

    Project mention: L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-27

    There are quite a few other terminal based spreadsheet people have been doing over the last few years.

    Most notably:

    https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

    Has been in HN often, most recently:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662658

    New takes:

  4. warpd

    A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer

    Project mention: A Small Change to Improve Browsers for Keyboard Navigation | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-25
  5. fzy

    :mag: A simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal

  6. vimb

    Vimb - the vim like browser is a webkit based web browser that behaves like the vimperator plugin for the firefox and usage paradigms from the great editor vim. The goal of vimb is to build a completely keyboard-driven, efficient and pleasurable browsing-experience.

  7. uncap

    Map Caps Lock to Escape or any key to any key

  8. SketchyVim

    Adds all vim moves and modes to macOS text fields

    Project mention: Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-19
  9. pick

    A fuzzy search tool for the command-line

  10. howm

    A lightweight, X11 tiling window manager that behaves like vim

  11. nextvi

    A small vi/ex terminal text editor (neatvi rewrite)

    Project mention: The vi family | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-12
  12. OpenVi

    OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems

  13. vim-history

    Very very old history of Vim (from v1.14 to v6.4)

  14. vim-particle

    Particle effects for Vim on Windows

  15. hed

    vim like hex editor

  16. st-history-vim

    Development of the "vim patch" and a minimalist "history patch" for the suckless simple terminal (st).

  17. dotfiles

    Welcome to my dungeon. Here, I keep all my configuration files in case I have a stroke and lose all my memory. You're very welcome to explore and use anything in this repository. Have fun! (by arg3t)

  18. dotfiles

    My dotfiles for Archlinux,NixOs, Emacs, dwm, dmenu, vim, XMonad and other... (by Horhik)

  19. dotfiles

    My personal config files copied from all over the internet. (by tamton-aquib)

  20. dotfiles

    Personal dotfiles of Vinod Nimbalkar. :wrench: (by vinodnimbalkar)

  21. keystance

    An open-source text-editor / enhanced version of kilo

  22. wintweak.gvim

    Extra GUI features for GVim on Windows.

  23. vmacro

    Vim macros on the command line 🚀🤖

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source Vim projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 nnn 21,616
2 sc-im 5,637
3 warpd 3,512
4 fzy 3,257
5 vimb 1,465
6 uncap 1,154
7 SketchyVim 1,008
8 pick 835
9 howm 659
10 nextvi 244
11 OpenVi 192
12 vim-history 149
13 vim-particle 136
14 hed 56
15 st-history-vim 55
16 dotfiles 38
17 dotfiles 25
18 dotfiles 23
19 dotfiles 10
20 keystance 6
21 wintweak.gvim 6
22 vmacro 1

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