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{"by":"PuercoPop","id":15712878,"kids":[15713642,15716007,15715818],"parent":15710533,"text":"I used Vis full time for a two weeks a couple of months ago. It was pretty nifty. (I&#x27;m Emacs user so this was an time-bounded experiment).<p>Vis is a great of example of the suckless philosophy and of Guy Steele&#x27;s point about removing the need of features by having synergy between other features. For example they have an immutable piece table to support undo by just moving a pointer. This would mean that as the buffer remains open one would use more and more memory. Instead of implementation a &#x27;garbarge collector&#x27; they chose to automatically close a file when its not shown on the screen.","time":1510843014,"type":"comment"}