Vim Classic

Vim Classic - long term support for Vim

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

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

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

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News

Vim Classic 8.3 released

[2026-04-??]

DRAFT

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

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