Vim Classic - long term support for Vim

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

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

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Vim Classic 8.3 released

[2026-06-02]

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