Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

From: Christian Hesse <list_AT_eworm.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:05:21 +0200

Dimitris Zervas <dzervas_AT_dzervas.gr> on Mon, 2014/09/15 10:49:
> On September 13, 2014 5:01:15 PM EEST, "Marc André Tanner"
> <mat_AT_brain-dump.org> wrote:
> >TLDR: I'm writing an experimental but (hopefully) highly efficient vim
> >like text editor based on a piece chain data structure. You will find
> >an url to a git repository at the end of this rather long mail.
>
> Take a look at sandy [0], it is a suckless vim-like text editor.
> We haven't paid much attention at the text management algorithm, but I
> think that your algorithm is not that difficult to implement. Apart from
> that, we've implemented all the features you pointed, apart from auto
> completion.
>
> Have fun coding! :)
>
> [0]: http://git.suckless.org/sandy

sandy is a nice editor, but not vim-like, no? Looking at the man page it
looks similar to nano and friends.

I did test it some time ago, but did not feed familiar with it. (In contrast
to vis, which works as expected for a vim-like editor.)
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