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
