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vis

brew install vis v0.9_1 ISC

Vim-like text editor

17
30-day installs · #7164
76
90-day · #6223
272
365-day · #6578

Runtime dependencies

libtermkey lpeg lua@5.4 tre

Build dependencies

pkgconf

Links

Caveats

To avoid a name conflict with the macOS system utility /usr/bin/vis,
this text editor must be invoked by calling `vise` ("vis-editor").
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