Why this? Yet Another vi-based Editor?

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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yez

[nocomment]

ziss zounds quite intellestink.

Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do another vi when the ultimate vi based editor is here ?

Re:What's with the abnormal names already?

[JabberWokky]

Yeah, I actually knew that. I was trying to reduce the people jumping in point out the Nova UL and blur my point. What I got was a reply jumping in to point out the UL status. Ah, well. Slashdot - the nexus of all nitpicks.

--
Evan "Next time I footnote"

wordpad has command mode too

[ufnoise]

Whenever you move the mouse to the top menubar and select save in wordpad, you are entering command mode. Move the mouse back down to the text area and you are back in edit mode.

Re:What's with the abnormal names already?

[Tackhead]

> Geeks must have some sort of Advertising Impairment Syndrome, where in order to make a brand-name, they take the most unpronouncable and esoteric combinations of characters and stick them together.
>
> It's like all the crazies who go ballistic at people when people don't pronounce a hard "G" at the beginning of "Gnome". Why the fuck should they? It's pronounced differently in every other word beginning with "G-N".

So we did it your way.

"Yzis" == "why this", but it's also a play on "vi zis", vit un boguz Zherman aggzent.

Except, of course, that "vi" isn't pronounced "vye" except by noobs and clueless twits. It's pronounced "vee eye", as in, two syllables, for "visual interface". But "vim" is always pronounced "vim", not "vee eye emm", that is, it's proper to use one syllable instead of three.

Flammed if you do, flammed if you don't.

Why this? There's only one explanation: The naming convention for yzis was chosen by a Vast EMACS-Wing Conspiracy as part of an attempt to get both of the "vi" camps to wage holy war upon each other instead of the true enemy.

"Vellllly intellestink. But schtupid."

Cocoa GUI

[rawg]

This sounds great! Finally I can have a Cocoa GUI for VIM!

Vim macro language a little archaic

[PylonHead]

It might be time to replace Vim's macro langague with a more widespread, general purpose language. Lisp anyone?

Re:Vim macro language a little archaic

[be-fan]

Vimacs? To tell the truth, a Common-Lisp based editor with the Vi modal setup would kick ass...

Re:The untold truth about text editors

[Anonymous Coward]

Just wait until you read my upcoming novel. It's called "sendmail.cf: How I wasted my life"

Re:The untold truth about text editors

[Hatta]

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

Yes, but isn't it fun watching them run?

Yeah! Vi rocks!

[phlurg]

This sounds awesome. Vi is cool!!!! quit exit :q :q! done :q!!!!!!! dammit! close editor freak~!4%)(*@#@@(*!@*&)

Re:Yeah! Vi rocks!

[Anonymous Coward]

> This sounds awesome. Vi is cool!!!! quit exit :q :q! done :q!!!!!!! dammit! close editor freak~!4%)(*@#@@(*!@*&)

You must be using Emacs. IIRC, its exit sequence is Ctrl-Alt-Meta-Shift-TH1SUX-Delete-Enter. Either that or it launches a flight simulator, an email program, and recompiles your kernel.