{"slug": "vim-classic", "title": "Vim Classic", "summary": "Drew DeVault announced the release of Vim Classic 8.3.0 on 2026-06-02, a long-term support fork of Vim 8.x maintained without the assistance of generative AI tools. The project, hosted on SourceHut with announce, discuss and devel mailing lists plus #vim-classic on irc.libera.chat, positions itself as a stable, human-maintained editor and directs donations to Kuwasha to continue Bram Moolenaar's charitable legacy.", "body_md": "# Vim Classic - long term support for Vim\n\n\t\tVim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a\n\t\tstable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.\n\t\n\n- Documentation\n- [Browse online](https://vim-classic.org/doc/) or read`:help` in Vim Classic\n- Source code\n- See [SourceHut](https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/vim-classic)\n- Mailing lists\n- [vim-classic-announce](https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/vim-classic-announce)\n- [vim-classic-discuss](https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/vim-classic-discuss)\n- [vim-classic-devel](https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/vim-classic-devel)\n- IRC\n- #vim-classic on irc.libera.chat\n\n# Help orphaned children in Uganda\n\n\t\tPlease donate to [Kuwasha](https://www.kuwasha.net/) to help\n\t\tcontinue Bram Moolenaar's legacy of providing for those in need.\n\t\n\n[2026-06-02]\n\n\t\tI'm proud to announce the release of the first version of Vim Classic, Vim\n\t\tClassic 8.3.0, a stable, long-term support fork of the ubiquitous text\n\t\teditor, maintained without the assistance of generative AI tools.\n\t\n\n[Read more](https://vim-classic.org/news/vim-8.3-released.html)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vim-classic", "canonical_source": "https://vim-classic.org/", "published_at": "2026-10-26 00:03:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-26 00:43:24.053307+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Vim Classic", "Vim", "Drew DeVault", "SourceHut", "Bram Moolenaar", "Kuwasha"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vim-classic", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vim-classic.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vim-classic.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vim-classic.jsonld"}}