Curious, want to try it yourself before you flame it to death for being in python 2 or claiming to be remotely plausible as a vim substitute?<p><pre><code>  git clone https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;iogf&#x2F;vy
  cd vy
  virtualenv .
  .&#x2F;bin&#x2F;pip install untwisted pygments
  .&#x2F;bin&#x2F;python setup.py install
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You&#x27;ll probably want to edit &#x2F;vyapp&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;toggle_mode.py to use a KeyPress binding that is valid for your platform at this point, or you&#x27;ll get:<p><pre><code>    _tkinter.TclError: bad event type or keysym &quot;Apostrophe&quot; 
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...and finally,<p><pre><code>    .&#x2F;bin&#x2F;vy
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Right, now you can start playing wading your way through <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;iogf&#x2F;vy&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;INTRO.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;iogf&#x2F;vy&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;INTRO.md</a> and try to understand the command syntax.<p>Good luck!<p>Vim clones are a dime a dozen; this is actually an entirely different thing, and although I can&#x27;t imagine actually using it for anything... it&#x27;s interesting to see people work on different approaches to text editors.<p>A simple hackable python text editor may not be useful in the long term for anything (for all the reasons about distributing python and python performance limitations), but its certainly viable for prototyping interesting features.