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Thanks for the pointer. I am getting more and more frustrated with Vim (and neovim is not what I am looking for) and looking for alternatives.

I did try "vis" a while ago and it was alright but not quite there yet. And it was a bit too "sickness" for my taste, e.g. requires shell scripts for completion to ":open".

I do intend to try it again some time but I'll also give kakoune a go.

https://github.com/martanne/vis

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I haven't tried vis, although it too looks like a pretty solid project.

> I did try "vis" a while ago and it was alright but not quite there yet. And it was a bit too "sickness" for my taste, e.g. requires shell scripts for completion to ":open".

With regard to that particular issue, kak has a great fuzzy-finder.

edit: It also apparently integrates with ranger, although I haven't tried that.

It works very well but is still work in progress.

I appreciate that it's "just an editor" and not a half-assed IDE or an application framework. But I think they might have taken it a step too far.

I've been using `vis` for a while now, and I agree that it used to be overly minimal, but I've submitted enough issues that it now fits my workflow. Once you get past the friction of it not being vim, you can enjoy multiple cursors, a sane scripting language (Lua), sam's structural regex....

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