vibe, a line-editor with vi-compatible keystrokes

[pj at pjb.com.au]

Devon Stewart wrote:
> Does vim have a line-editor mode?

It depends what you mean; there is, like I say,
  vim -c 'set lines=2'
but it's still a curses app, so it still speaks voluminous garbage
and takes over the whole screen so you can't use a screen-reader
to see what's been happening. Might as well use vim.
I don't think vim has any non-curses modes.
These days ex is usually a symlink to vim -e which is still
a curses app; anyway, then you should be using edbrowse.

Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hmmm, but one can do this all in vim already.

Oh yes, vibe is only ever going to be a small subset of vim.
But vim speaks lots of garbage, and takes over the whole screen etc.

I'm still fixing lots of vibe bugs within one version number,
I'll become more disciplined later...
  http://www.pjb.com.au/blin/free/vibe

Peter

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