Vim

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Vim
Vim editor.gif
Name Vi IMproved
Version 9.0 (Jun 2022)
Vendor
Author Bram Moolenaar
Licence Charityware
WWW http://www.vim.org

Vi IMproved is a multi-platform programmer's editor that is upwards compatible with the classic UNIX editor vi.

History

The development originally started on the Amiga around 1990 as an improvement of STEVIE and was named Vi Imitation.

  • David Sanders (OS/2 port: Versions 6.3, 6.4, 7.0)

Features

Additional features:

  • multi-level undo
  • syntax highlighting
  • command line history
  • on-line help
  • filename completion
  • block operations

Vim related programmer's utilities

Versions

  • Mar 1997: Vim 4.6 - for emx 0.9b
  • Mar 1998: Vim 5.0 - ctags 2.0, xxd 1.8, colour support for os2ansi
  • Apr 1998: Vim 5.1
  • Aug 1998: Vim 5.3
  • Jul 1999: Vim 5.4 - Exuberant Ctags 3.2.4
  • Sep 1999: Vim 5.5 - Exuberant Ctags 3.3
  • Jan 2000: Vim 5.6
  • May 2001: Vim 5.8
  • Sep 2001: Vim 6.0
  • Mar 2002: Vim 6.1
  • Jun 2004: Vim 6.3
  • Oct 2005: Vim 6.4
  • Vim 7.0 (2006-05-17)
  • Vim 7.1 (2007-05-12) - 16-bit MS-DOS version
  • Vim 7.3 (2010-08-15) - 32-bit MS-DOS version
  • Vim 7.4 (2013-08-10)
  • Vim 8.0 (2017-04-23)
  • Vim 8.1 (2018-05-18)

Publications

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