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Vim (Text Editor)Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open-source, multi-platform text editor. Like vi, Vim is modal - an unusual feature which tends to confuse new users. Since first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991, Vim has added a myriad of features; many are helpful in editing program source code. Vim remains popular with programmers and users of Unix-like operating systems. Some of the main features of Vim and improvements of Vim over vi: - Vim is 99% vi compatible
- portability: there are versions for
- multi level undo/redo
- multiple modified buffers
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) mode
- split windows -- both horizontal and vertical
- syntax highlighting for hundreds of file types, even Wikipedia format
- support for Unicode
- trans-session history of commands/searches/registers/positions ...
- command-line editing and extensive completion
- IDE-like build/review/edit features
- session state preservation, including cursor position and history
- configurable status line
- insert-mode completion
- multi-mode text folding
- extended scripting and expressions
- scripted plugins
- remote file editing from ssh, ftp and http servers, among others
- visual mode selection with char/line/block ranges
- comprehensive integrated help system with hypertext via ctags
- code folding
See also External links
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