The Text Editor Sam by Rob Pike

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  • vis

    A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions (by martanne)

  • 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

  • acme2k

    acme2k - text editor fo' all the cool cats who ain't 'fraid of no mice

  • There are some forks (or reimplementations) of acme that have more keybindings, allowing you to avoid mouse cording. Here are a couple that I like:

    https://github.com/karahobny/acme2k

    https://github.com/aarzilli/yacco

    HTH

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  • yacco

    9haram clone of the acme text editor

  • There are some forks (or reimplementations) of acme that have more keybindings, allowing you to avoid mouse cording. Here are a couple that I like:

    https://github.com/karahobny/acme2k

    https://github.com/aarzilli/yacco

    HTH

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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