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Welcome to Yzis

Yzis a vi-like editor inspired by vim. Yzis aims to be a powerful, fast editor with all of Vim's features and hopefully, at some point, more.

In Yzis, the core editing engine is placed in a library that does not depend on any GUI library. On top of it, GUI frontends are developed. The goal is to make vi-like editing capabilities available to many graphical applications.

As of now, there are frontends for Qt and NCurses. A KDE 4 frontend has been started, to have Yzis embedded in KDevelop or Kate. A Gtk frontend was started but is currently unmaintained.

If you want to know more about Yzis origins, check the History page.

Yzis is developed in C++, with the Qt4 core . Qt is only used for non graphical objects (lists, unicode handling, XML parser, ...). Other GUI frontends such as Gtk, XUL or MFC would be welcome. Scripting is available through the Lua script language. Syntax Highlighting has been borrowed from the KDE editor Kate.

libyzis is published under the terms of the LGPL.

kyzis, qyzis and nyzis are published under the terms of the GPL.

The current status is available on the Status page.

The list of contributors is listed in the Authors file.