This is a release of vis as it has been for more than a year before some
development started up again. We're releasing this version to get a stable
'old' release out there which should still contain a number of bugfixes
compared to 0.7.
https://github.com/martanne/vis/releases/tag/v0.8
"This is mostly a bug fix release with fixes for a few cases of undefined
behavior and preliminary work for experimentation with different core text
management data structures and general editor architecture."
https://github.com/martanne/vis/releases/tag/v0.7
Lots of fixes and improvements, see
https://github.com/martanne/vis/releases/tag/v0.6 .
All patches fixed, "make regress" is happy for 22/28 tests.
DEBUG is not yet honored and DEBUG_PACKAGES are missing,
this will be done in a separate commit.
Vis aims to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient editor combining the
strengths of both vi(m) and sam.
It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple
cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression
based command language.
As an universal editor it has decent Unicode support and should cope with
arbitrary files including: large, binary or single-line ones.
Efficient syntax highlighting is provided using Parsing Expression Grammars
which can be conveniently expressed using Lua in the form of LPeg.
From Klemens Nanni and Carolyn Saunders
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