Vim (text editor)
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Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open-source, multi-platform text editor. Like vi, Vim is modal - an unusual feature which tends to confuse new users.
Since first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991, Vim has added a myriad of features; many are helpful in editing program source code. Vim remains popular with programmers and users of Unix-like operating systems.
Some of the main features of Vim and improvements of Vim over vi:
- Vim is 99% vi compatible
- portability: there are versions for
- multi level undo/redo
- multiple modified buffers
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) mode
- split windows -- both horizontal and vertical
- syntax highlighting for hundreds of file types, even Wikipedia format
- support for Unicode
- trans-session history of commands/searches/registers/positions ...
- command-line editing and extensive completion
- IDE-like build/review/edit features
- session state preservation, including cursor position and history
- configurable status line
- insert-mode completion
- multi-mode text folding
- extended scripting and expressions
- scripted plugins
- remote file editing from ssh, ftp and http servers, among others
- visual mode selection with char/line/block ranges
- comprehensive integrated help system with hypertext via ctags
- code folding
- mouse sensitive
See also
External links
- Vim home page (http://www.vim.org/)
- ICCF Holland (http://iccf-holland.org/) - The charity that Vim supports.
- Vim FAQ (http://www.vim.org/faq/)
- Vi-Improved.org (http://www.VI-Improved.org/) (#Vim on FreeNode)
- Manual (http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_toc.html)
- Cream (http://cream.sourceforge.net) - A free (GPL), easy-to-use configuration of the powerful Vim text editor for Windows and GNU/Linux.
- comp.editors: Vim (Dominated) Newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.editors)
- Syntax highlighting in ViM, mappings and the vimrc file (http://www.linux.ie/articles/tutorials/vi3.php)
- C editing with VIM HOWTO (http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/C-editing-with-VIM-HOWTO/index.html)de:vim