martanne/vis

Health v2 · maintenance only

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4696 stars · 280 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Vis is a vi-like modal text editor written in C that combines Vim-style modal editing with Plan 9 sam's structural regular expression command language and built-in multiple cursors/selections. It supports Lua-based extension and efficient syntax highlighting via LPeg parsing expression grammars.

Use cases

• edit text in a terminal with vi-like modal keybindings
• use multiple cursors and selections for editing
• perform structural regular expression based text transformations
• extend an editor with Lua plugins
• edit large or binary files efficiently
• run a lightweight editor in resource-constrained environments

When to choose

• you want vi-style modal editing with multiple cursors and sam-like structural regex commands
• you need a fast, lightweight terminal editor with Unicode support
• you want to script editor behavior in Lua

When to avoid

• you need bug-for-bug Vim compatibility or Vim plugin ecosystems
• you want a GUI editor with built-in clipboard and file dialogs
• you rely on extensive IDE features like LSP integrations out of the box

Facets

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editor parser plugin-system text-editors developer-tools bsd cli cross-platform modal-editing vi-like structural-regex multiple-cursors lua-extensible terminal-editor plan9 command-line linux macos

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