Vim
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Vim | |
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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.
Contents
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
- Exuberant ctags - Creates index files out of Vimscript source files
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
- Linda Lamb; Arnold Robbins; Elbert Hannah: Learning the Vi and Vim Editors - O'Reilly 2008, ISBN 0-596-52983-X
- Kim Schulz: Hacking Vim - Packt 2010, ISBN 1-84951-050-4
- Mark McDonnell: Pro Vim - Apress 2014, ISBN 1-4842-0251-1
- Drew Neil: Practical Vim, Second Edition - Pragmatic Bookshelf 2015, ISBN 1-68050-127-5
- Drew Neil: Modern Vim - Pragmatic Bookshelf 2018, ISBN 1-68050-262-X
- Jovica Ilic: Mastering Vim Quickly - 2018, ISBN 1-983325-74-0
- Ruslan Osipov: Mastering Vim - 2018, ISBN 1-78934-109-4