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16 stories tagged vim, newest first.

Screenshot of rhun.app: Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly

Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly (rhun.app)

28 points by vladcodes 24 days ago | 9 comments

Landing page for rhun, a small, fast open-source code editor written in assembly for Linux, Windows and Apple silicon Macs, with Vim mode and AI agent panels.

rhun code-editor assembly x86-64

Screenshot of unsung.aresluna.org: On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted (unsung.aresluna.org)

346 points by jandeboevrie 29 days ago | 306 comments

A blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about NeoVim deleting Vim undo files and developers' duty of care toward user data.

neovim vim undo-files data-loss

Screenshot of gingerbill.org: Good Tools Are Invisible

Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)

519 points by theanonymousone 3 months ago | 234 comments

An essay by Ginger Bill arguing that good tools should be invisible rather than "fun" puzzles, using vim and text editor culture as an example.

developer-tools tool-design vim text-editors

Screenshot of veronicaexplains.net: Time to talk about my writerdeck

Time to talk about my writerdeck (veronicaexplains.net)

479 points by hggh 5 months ago | 285 comments

Blog post by Veronica Explains describing her writerdeck, a terminal-only laptop set up with vim for distraction-free writing.

writerdeck distraction-free-writing terminal vim

Neovim 0.12.0 (github.com)

347 points by pawelgrzybek 7 months ago | 192 comments

GitHub release page for Neovim v0.12.0, showing build info (Release build, LuaJIT 2.1).

neovim vim text-editor release

Vim 9.2 (vim.org)

372 points by tapanjk 8 months ago | 154 comments

Official vim.org announcement of the Vim 9.2 release, highlighting Vim9 enums, generics, tuples, Wayland, autocompletion, XDG support and diff mode improvements.

vim text-editors vim9script release-announcement

VIM Master (github.com)

345 points by Fluffyrnz 1 year ago | 112 comments

GitHub repository for VIM Master, a lightweight in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short levels.

vim text-editors browser-game learning

Screenshot of d2lang.com: D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders

D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders (d2lang.com)

411 points by alixanderwang 1 year ago | 70 comments

D2 blog post announcing ASCII output rendering in release 0.7.1, with .txt output files and a Vim extension preview example.

d2 diagrams-as-code ascii-art vim

Screenshot of github.com: Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion

Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion (github.com)

496 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 97 comments

GitHub repository for llama.vim, a Vim plugin that provides local LLM-assisted code and text completion using llama.cpp.

llama-cpp vim vim-plugin code-completion

Screenshot of eieio.games: Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim

Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (eieio.games)

566 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 57 comments

Blog post by Nolen Royalty showing the Bad Apple video rendered in Vim using only a sequence of about 6,500 regex search queries highlighting text.

vim regex bad-apple creative-coding

Screenshot of github.com: SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet

SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet (github.com)

382 points by emersonrsantos 2 years ago | 113 comments

GitHub repository for sc-im, an ncurses-based terminal spreadsheet program with Vim-like keybindings.

sc-im spreadsheet ncurses vim

Vim Boss (neovim.io)

1189 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 112 comments

A Neovim news post from August 2023 paying tribute to Vim creator Bram Moolenaar and reflecting on his character and influence.

vim neovim bram-moolenaar text-editors

Screenshot of groups.google.com: The Future of the Vim Project

The Future of the Vim Project (groups.google.com)

617 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 349 comments

Christian Brabandt's vim_dev mailing list post on continuing the Vim project, covering GitHub admin access, new maintainers, and merge plans.

vim text-editors open-source-governance github

Screenshot of groups.google.com: Bram Moolenaar has died

Bram Moolenaar has died (groups.google.com)

4020 points by wufocaculura 3 years ago | 383 comments

A vim_announce Google Groups post from Bram Moolenaar's family announcing his death on 3 August 2023 and his upcoming funeral arrangements.

vim bram-moolenaar obituary text-editors

LazyVim (lazyvim.org)

527 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 453 comments

Getting Started documentation page for LazyVim, a Neovim configuration built on lazy.nvim that aims to make customizing and extending the editor easy.

lazyvim neovim lazy-nvim vim

Screenshot of barbarianmeetscoding.com: Moving fast with the core Vim motions

Moving fast with the core Vim motions (barbarianmeetscoding.com)

366 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 219 comments

Chapter 6 of the online book "Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim," covering the core Vim motions for moving quickly through code.

vim vscode vim-motions text-editors