n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi
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The Traditional Vi (vi with many enhancements from Gunnar Ritter)
7 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2020-12-15 · latest 2026-06-23
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Github mirror + some bugfixes https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi/
comment by haunter · 2026-06-23 · in The Traditional Vi (2007) -
…in any editor is turn all the file format handling stuff off because I'm a curmudgeon who thinks in https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi Yes re external templates; my usual approach to 'keeping the code and template close together'…
comment by mst · 2024-11-20 · in The tragedy of running an old Node project -
…has added it so I may attempt that one at some point. (tabs don't fit my brain nearly as well and https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi is my usual editor and doesn't provide anything of that ilk anyway ... I may be an outlier ...)…
comment by mst · 2024-05-10 · in Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell -
Heirloom ex-vi: https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi Plus an fvwm2 config built for it: http://trout.me.uk/screenshot4.png ( http://trout.me.uk/X11/ )
comment by mst · 2022-06-29 · in Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on? -
…continuation of Gunnar Ritter's (outstanding) traditional ex/vi project is highly recommended. See https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi/ . The parent project on SourceForge hasn't had any activity for 15 years, nor a release in 17+…
comment by trn · 2022-02-20 · in OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems -
…still not traditional vi by any means. A multibyte variant of the traditional vi is maintained at https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi/ . Nvi (now on version 1.8x) is also maintained - https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git Nvi2 is yet another…
comment by trn · 2022-02-19 · in OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems