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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...

  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.