vile ☆
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Description:
Vi Like Emacs Editor
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: editor vi emacs text-editor cli
Install: brew install vile
About:
Vile is a text editor that combines the modal editing paradigm of Vi with the extensibility and multi-buffer capabilities of Emacs. It allows users to edit multiple files simultaneously within a single screen session, offering a powerful environment for complex programming tasks. This hybrid approach provides the efficiency of Vi commands with the flexibility of a Lisp-based extension language.
Key Features:
  • Vi-style modal editing
  • Multi-buffer and multi-window support
  • Extensible via a built-in Lisp interpreter
Use Cases:
  • Editing multiple related source files simultaneously
  • Customizing the editor environment for specific workflows
Alternatives:
  • vim – Vim is a more widely used Vi clone, while Vile offers deeper Emacs-like multi-file integration.
  • emacs – Emacs provides a similar extensibility but uses a different editing paradigm (non-modal by default).
Version History
Detected Version Rev Change Commit
Sep 11, 2025 9:33pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 4ecadf3c
Dec 21, 2024 7:29pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 6dff5c1b
Sep 11, 2024 10:52pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 1704aa37
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