Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim

1. minix

   1 13 3,475 0.0 C

   Official MINIX sources - Automatically replicated from gerrit.minix3.org

   

   > The creator of MINIX, Andrew Tanenbaum, asked the community to choose between Stevie and Elvis to be adopted as the main text editor for their OS. Elvis was chosen and it's the default text editor on MINIX until today.

   Point of order: Minix switched to BSD nvi in 2013 https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...

   Not that it matters -- Minix itself hasn't had a commit since 2018 -- but the last five years of its life were spent without Elvis

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. helix

   2 487 45,830 9.8 Rust

   A post-modern modal text editor.

   

   I’m not sure. Command based editing opens more doors than just optimizing keystrokes. There are edits I somewhat regularly do with Vim macros that save me minutes of typing and cognitive burden of examining refactor locations. It’s probably not going to be make or break, but I do think it’s significant in a p > 0.05 sense.

   I imagine Vim is only just a local optima too. There are newer editors [0] that are more AST aware that I haven’t been able to fairly evaluate yet (not in the boring corp approved software list).

   [0]: https://helix-editor.com/

4. winner

   3 19 1,457 9.2 HTML

   Winners of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest

   

   I'm now reminded of an unrelated mini-vi: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/1991/ant/ant...

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