Vile

Extensible multi-platform programmer's editor that was forked from MicroEMACS and released for DOS in 1990 and since ported to a host of architectures, basically retains architecture, the multiple buffers and windows features from MicroEMACS but changes the the keyboard shortcuts and command structure to that of Vi.

Version

• Latest version: 9.8

Language Support

• English - Built in.

License

• Open source, older version were based on MicroEMACS code and thus released as copyright software with a no commercial usage clause, current version released under the GNU GPL v2 License.

Links

• Vile homepage

Author

• Paul Fox (Original fork)
• Thomas E. Dickey (Current developer)