Vim
| Vim | |
|---|---|
| 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.
- David Sanders (OS/2 port)
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