Vim Classic

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Vim Classic - long term support for Vim

Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.

Notice: We're still getting this fork up and running. Your patience is appreciated while we do some housekeeping!

Documentation
Browse online or read :help in Vim Classic
Source code
See SourceHut
Mailing lists
vim-classic-announce
vim-classic-discuss
vim-classic-devel
IRC
#vim-classic on irc.libera.chat

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Vim Classic 8.3 released

[2026-04-??]

DRAFT

I'm proud to announce the release of the first version of Vim Classic, Vim Classic 8.3.0, a stable, long-term support fork of the ubiquitous text editor, maintained without the assistance of generative AI tools.

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