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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. Not really by keesh · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is one of the things Vim 7 will do. And really, I couldn't bear going back to plain old vi after having used vim for so long. Too many features missing...

    1. Re:Not really by harikiri · · Score: 3, Informative
      Apparently, because Kvim is kparts-enabled behind the scenes, you can use it as the default editor for Kdevelop, just like Kate.

      In fact, after a brief look at the FAQ for Kvim:

      What's an editor component ?

      A component is a subpart of an application that you can embed dynamically in other applications. Making KVim available as a Kde component means that every Kde application will be able to embed Vim when it needs an editor : KDevelop, mail clients, news clients, ...

      PS, More IDE's need vi(m) support!!!

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  2. Re:NSTextField by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 4, Informative

    Those are actually Emacs commands. vi would be ^ for the start of a line, and $ for the end.

    I too often find myself hitting Esc and then typing vi commands in text boxes, like here on /. A real vi mode would be welcome in input widgets.

  3. Re:What's with the abnormal names already? by scrytch · · Score: 2, Informative

    > I'd say that there's no more market tested and carefully chosen names than car model names. The Chevy Nova notwithstanding. :)

    Urban legend actually. http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

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  4. Editors listing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    There's a big list of editors here, which includes several vi clones (or based on vi[m]) like Elvis, Cream, Vile and WinVim.

    All of these run on Windows only but there are a lot of Unix/Linux eds that have Win32 ports. There are other tools (IDEs and so on) there as well. I found that site while looking for a Windows version of PICO - I ended up using nano instead, which I didn't know existed (old Unix head that I am). Nano runs great on a Windows console, BTW.

    Personally I would like to see someone come up with a list or a wiki of all free/libre editors for *nix/*BSD. There are a few lists around, but none are very comprehensive.

  5. Re:NSTextField by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 2, Informative

    ^ goes to the first non-whitespace character. 0 (zero) goes to the first charater on the line.

    So if you have a indented line, ^ will take you after the indent. Where the 0 would take you to the space or tab that starts the line.

  6. Re:NSTextField by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically they are POSIX regex anchors. So any program that speaks regex will have similar functionality.