Vim

Vim
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Name	Vi IMproved
Version	8.1.1864 (Aug 2019)
Vendor
Author	Bram Moolenaar
Licence	Open Source
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 a improvement of STEVIE and was named Vi Imitation.

Authors:

• Tim Thompson (Original STEVIE developer)
• Tony Andrews (Improvements to STEVIE, port to Amiga that was the basis for Vim, original STEVIE and Vim OS/2 ports)
• David Sanders (OS/2 port)

Features

Additional features:

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

Vim related programmer's utilities

• 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

Links

• OS/2 downloads