vim-nano

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  vim-nano in action

Inspiration

People keep triggering each other over emacs vs vim. Oh sometimes sublime too (lol). As a representative of the pacifist nano community, I wish to bring the nano experience to the vim users. This way, vim users can start editing text in a sensible way without losing all the street-cred.

What it does

Its a vim plugin which perfectly transforms vim to nano, you won't even notice its vim.

How I built it

Imitating the UI was the toughest part. Vim's ancient design limits prevents it from matching the awesome nano UI. Moreover, making it responsive to terminal size was a big pain. I cleverly divide the UI into 3 vim splits, 2 of which runs a python UI generator which adapts to the terminal width.

Vim keybindings to replicate nano features

Challenges I ran into

The UI!

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The UI hack!

What I learned

How not to write vim plugins

What's next for vim-nano

Full keybinding support!

Built With

• python
• vimscript