https://github.com/skywind3000/viz

🚀 Smallest Vi-clone Text Editor for Windows CLI and SSH session (only 62KB) !!
https://github.com/skywind3000/viz

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🚀 Smallest Vi-clone Text Editor for Windows CLI and SSH session (only 62KB) !!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/skywind3000/viz
• Owner: skywind3000
• Created: 2025-03-31T07:40:12.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-31T07:47:41.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-08T21:57:15.962Z (9 months ago)
• Size: 8.79 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Viz

Smallest Vi-clone text editor for Windows (62KB) that runs in terminal and SSH sessions.

## Features

- Smallest full function vi-clone text editor, **only 62KB**.

- Portable, distrubted as a single executable file.

- Offers a wide range of vi functions: search (`/` and `?`), undo (`u`), repeat (`.`), and marks (`m{letter}`).

- Named register for yank/paste: `"a3yy` and `"ap`.

- Supports multiple files with commands like `:next`, `:prev`, and `:rewind`.

- Some colon mode commands with `:` (available options can be listed with `:set`).

- Adapt to window re-sizes.

- Can be used in ssh sessions and none-GUI environments (eg. server container).

- Even runs on Windows XP and Windows 7.

- Supports `%USERPROFILE%\.exrc` configuration.

- Ideal for occasional or emergency use.

- Ideal for keeping it in your rescue USB-stick.

## Download

- Executable file can be found in the [release](https://github.com/skywind3000/viz/releases) page.

## Screenshots

Runs remotely over an SSH session on a Windows 10 server (using PuTTY):

![](https://skywind3000.github.io/images/p/zvi/zvi_ssh.png)

Runs natively on Windows 7:

![](https://skywind3000.github.io/images/p/zvi/zvi_win7.png)

Runs natively on Windows XP:

![](https://skywind3000.github.io/images/p/zvi/zvi_xp.png)

## Source

Busybox includes a well-implemented and maintained `vi` applet, which has been contributed to for more than 10 years by the busybox contributors

The code is from [busybox-w32](https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32) project, I just tailor it into a single applet.

## Build

Download and install MSYS2, start `MinGW32` program:

```

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32.git

git clone https://github.com/skywind3000/viz.git

cd busybox-w32

make mingw32_defconfig    # 32 bits will run on more platforms

```

then just:

```

copy ../viz/.config .     # use the predefined configuration

make

mv busybox.exe viz.exe

```

## Credit

- https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32