On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 01:24:58PM +0200, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For many years I have been looking for a lightweight alternative to VIM.
> (sthg else than Emacs, elvis, nano,... and all the billion of text editor).
I think there are three alternatives whose features and size are comparable:
1. vi, which is much lighter but less featured
2. ed, the editor
3. neovim[1] which is a reboot of VIM aimed at making it more "modern".
I actually think the project doesn't look too bad. The reason for that
is that the original VIM code just looks so horrible...
> What about some dos - like editors running on Linux/Bsd,... *nix?
> ( Having windowed-look: http://tvision.sourceforge.net/tv2-QNX-tvscreen.jpg )
I don't really see the point of editors that use a terminal-based,
clickable UI. If you want that, you can just use a regular-GUI-based
editor like gedit, kate etc.
There is acme[2] for plan9 as well. In my opinion it depends on the
mouse too much but some people seem to swear by it.
Cheers,
Silvan
[1]
https://github.com/neovim/neovim
[2]
http://research.swtch.com/acme
Received on Sun Jun 29 2014 - 13:37:04 CEST
