Vigor is a clone of vi for

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that adds a

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of Clippit, the

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assistant. The name is a

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, Dr. Frankenstein's assistant. Vigor was written by Joel Ray "Piquan" Holveck in Sunnyvale, California, and the logo for Vigor was created by Tom Mulder. Vigor has spawned ports to other text editors as well, including Vim. There is also a Vigor visualization plugin for the audio player

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. The idea for Vigor originated in the ''

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'' webcomic by J.D. "Illiad" Frazer. Vigor is currently hosted on SourceForge.net. Released under the original 4-clause

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, Vigor is

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