Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderKudos to the developers for listing non goals. Too many software projects lose focus and become bloated because they take on features that are secondary to the main purpose. Projects may refrain from listing non goals for fear of excluding people who may want some of those features. And looking at the list, there are some pretty nice features excluded. For example network support, or editing compressed or tar files. I guess the expectation is that these can still be…
I've been using vis as my primary editor for six months, and I'm quite happy with it. (I'm a long time vim user.) Main selling points for me: - Simple editor, easy to learn, with a ~650 line man page as the documentation - Simple, yet has the most useful features from the great vim and sam editors - No feature bloat - unlike vim - No vimscript (lua instead) - Readable and hackable codebase - unlike vim - Structural…
So the main difference between neovim and vis is that vis only aims for 80% features?
With multiple cursors!
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 556
- Total comments
- 203
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-18 | Vis editor – 80% of vim's features implemented in roughly 1% of the code | petepete | 4 | 2 |
| 2016-03-09 | Vis: a vim like text editor | infodroid | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-04-05 | Vis: a vim like text editor | tambourine_man | 14 | 5 |
| 2016-04-07 | Vis: A Vim-Like Text EditorFirst breakout · Best thread | fractalb | 355 | 157 |
| 2017-11-16 | Vis – A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressionsLatest 20+ point return | wooby | 170 | 39 |
| 2019-12-17 | vis – A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions | pcr910303 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-03-19 | Vis a vim-like text editor | ryannevius | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-05-09 | Vis: A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regex | ryannevius | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-02-18 | vis: A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions | tosh | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-12-21 | Vis – Combining Modal Editing with Structural Regular Expressions | Lyngbakr | 2 | 0 |