Bug#838895: ITP: vis -- Modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor.org>
* Package name : vis
Version : 0.2(+git)
Upstream Author : Marc André Tanner
* URL : https://github.com/martanne/vis
* License : ISC
Programming Lang: C
Description : Modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor.
Vis aims to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor. It
extends vim's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors and
combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command language.
As an universal editor it has decent Unicode support (including double width
and combining characters) and should cope with arbitrary files (large files up
to a few GiB, single line files, binary files). Vis strives to be simple and
focuses on its core task: efficient text management. As an example the file
open dialog is provided by an independent utility. The intention is not to be
bug for bug compatible with vim, instead a similar editing experience should be
provided. The goal could thus be summarized as "80% of vim's features
implemented in roughly 1% of the code".
I already did some work for the packaging, feedback is welcome:
https://github.com/legovini/vis/tree/debian/sid/debian
I currently build the package with git-buildpackage and I'm using it on my
system. The package is simple, I could very well maintain it alone. I'm
currently using it on a daily basis, so I'm willing to keep it well
maintained and up to date.
Even if this ITP is welcomed I plan to wait for v0.3 to be released
before having the package pushed in the Debian repository. This should
happen reasonably soon, see this github issue where I contacted the
upstream author about my intention to package Vis:
https://github.com/martanne/vis/issues/381
I will need a sponsor.
Paride
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