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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