pyvim is an implementation of Vim in Python. There are no C extensions. This makes development a lot faster. It’s easy to prototype and integrate new features.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Syntax highlighting of files, using the Pygments lexers.
- Horizontal and vertical splits, as well as tab pages. (Similar to Vim.)
- All of the functionality of prompt_toolkit. This includes a lot of Vi key bindings, it’s platform independent and runs on every Python version from python 2.6 up to 3.4. It also runs on Pypy with a noticeable performance boost.
- Several :set … commands have been implemented, like incsearch, number, ignorecase, wildmenu, expandtab, hlsearch, ruler, paste and tabstop.
- Other working commands: vsplit, tabnew, only, badd, and many others.
- For Python source code, auto completion uses the amazing Jedi library, and code checking in done (asynchronously) through Pyflakes.
- Colorschemes can be changed at runtime.
Website: github.com/prompt-toolkit/pyvim
Support:
Developer: Jonathan Slenders
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License
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| gVim | Vim with a built-in GUI |
| amp | Vim-like editor written in Rust |
| Vy | Vim-like in Python made from scratch |
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