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Vim Classic

Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Haiku
  • AmigaOS
  • OpenSolaris
  • MorphOS
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Vim Classic News & Activities

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  • NEO Emacs icon
    Paul added Vim Classic as alternative to NEO Emacs
  • Caxton icon
    HWYEnigmaLLC added Vim Classic as alternative to Caxton
  • probstda liked Vim Classic
  • Clippy reviewed Vim Classic  

    So tired of everyone trying to fork and compete with main and involving politics.

    Cant we just code please

  • Juri liked Vim Classic
  • Nam Pham liked Vim Classic
  • the_Libre_one reviewed Vim Classic  

    WOW it supports Ukraine, Palestine, and LGBTQ which one of the biggest supporters of is Israel - which occupies Palestine - You just blew my mind with the amount of contradiction. I think it's a cheap attempt to gain support.

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  • RemovedUser reviewed Vim Classic  

    it's maintained by a pedophile. [https://dmpwn.info/](https://dmpwn.info/)

    edit: it seems the thing i linked to is an attempt at harassment by kiwifarmers. take what it says with a grain of salt.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Clippy
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So tired of everyone trying to fork and compete with main and involving politics.

Cant we just code please

the_Libre_one
-3

WOW it supports Ukraine, Palestine, and LGBTQ which one of the biggest supporters of is Israel - which occupies Palestine - You just blew my mind with the amount of contradiction. I think it's a cheap attempt to gain support.

RemovedUser
0

it's maintained by a pedophile. [https://dmpwn.info/](https://dmpwn.info/)

edit: it seems the thing i linked to is an attempt at harassment by kiwifarmers. take what it says with a grain of salt.

RemovedUser

I also advise you to find information about the organization of KDE, GNOME, SUSE. You will be disappointed.

That's right... To awaken critical thinking.

RemovedUser

Such as Drew DeVault, I can't even imagine.

Not to just write software….

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What is Vim Classic?

Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.

Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.2 for long-term maintenance. Little new feature development is expected.

Maintenance policy

Upstream Vim patches between versions 8.2 and 9.0 are acceptable for consideration in Vim Classic provided that they are adapted to avoid the use of Vim 9 Script, which is not included in Vim Classic.

Original patches, fixing bugs or making reasonable changes to existing features, are welcome. Patches which assist with the maintenance of the runtime are especially welcome, for example, updating syntax files to account for new features in supported programming languages.

Vim Classic information

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Vim Classic, and it has gotten 5 likes

Vim Classic was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on and this page was last updated .