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Why this? Yet Another vi-based Editor?

Posted by timothy on from the integrationism dept.

Poizon writes "The guys from freehackers.org have begun developing yet another vi-like editor, called Yzis (speak: "Why this?"). Their primary goal is to seperate the text processing engine and the GUI, in order to be able to integrate it into window managers like KDE as a native component. They have previously worked on KVim, a Vim port to KDE, so chances are good that they will succeed with Yzis. Sounds interesting, doesn't it?"

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  1. The untold truth about text editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    No matter how elite you feel your editor is, the untold truth is that 99.9% of this planet's population wants to click on what looks like a blank page, and start typing.

    No one's bothering to switch between edit mode and command mode.

    You will actually scare people off by pitching what seems to be an out-of-date typewriter.