About:
Vim is an almost fully-compatible version of the Unix editor Vi. Many new features have been added including multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, commandline history, online help, filename completion, and block operations. It is descended from the vi clone "stevie" and runs on many systems, including Unix, MS Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, VMS, and Amiga.

Author:
Bram Moolenaar <bram [at] vim [dot] org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.92/10.00 (205 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.vim.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.vim.org/download.php
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.1.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178
OS X package:
http://macvim.org/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://vim.cvs.sourceforge.net/vim/vim7/
Mailing list archive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim
Mirror site:
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications, X11 Applications :: Gnome, X11 Applications :: KDE
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		Free To Use But Restricted
[Operating System]		BeOS, MacOS, MacOS X, Microsoft, Microsoft :: MS-DOS, Microsoft :: Windows, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 3.1 or Earlier, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 95/98/ME, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows NT/2000/XP, OS/2, Other OS, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Text Editors, Text Processing

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	7.1	12-May-2007	Free To Use But Restricted
Development	6.0av	10-Sep-2001	Free To Use But Restricted

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
7.1	Major bugfixes	12-May-2007 18:23
7.0	Major feature enhancements	08-May-2006 13:37
6.4	Minor bugfixes	16-Oct-2005 00:35
6.3	Major bugfixes	08-Jun-2004 13:06
6.2	Minor feature enhancements	02-Jun-2003 09:23
6.1	Minor bugfixes	24-Mar-2002 18:42
6.0	Major feature enhancements	27-Sep-2001 18:13
5.8	Minor bugfixes	01-Jun-2001 08:49
5.7	N/A	04-Jul-2000 06:20
5.6	N/A	20-Jan-2000 09:13

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New vim packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 07:09 Red Hat: Updated vim packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, May 13th 2007 11:44 Red Hat: Updated vim packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Aug 25th 2005 13:56

Red Hat: New vim packages fix security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Feb 18th 2005 07:50 Red Hat: Updated VIM packages fix security vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Jan 5th 2005 07:56 Red Hat: Updated vim packages fix modeline vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Jan 16th 2003 06:54

 Comments

[»] vim is all you need
by gt3 - Sep 21st 2002 23:39:00

...well, all I need anyway. I love it mostly because of how quickly it lets you edit files with keystrokes. I use it no matter what platform i'm on, freebsd, linux, and win32 gvim beats any windows editor i've ever seen (even for programming, i'd rather use it than any ide). I especially love the 'torte' color scheme ;) I'll continue to use it for, probably, ever.

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[»] How I became hooked on vi(m)
by weissel - Apr 2nd 2002 07:47:27

I was interested in other editors since the one I used back then was too restricted. Additionally, vi* can be found on most any UN*X. However, most tutorials for vi just cover things like h,j,k,l,a, and that's it.

Then I stumbled across an excellent article -- actually a series of articles -- highlighting advanced features of vi*, and never ever bothering wih h,j,k,l & co; instead starting directly with
:g/^/m0,
:%s/^\([^ ]* [0-9]\)[0-9]*\([0-9] \)/\1\2,
:%s/Line \([0-9][0-9]*\): \(.*\)/\1s;$; XXX \2,
and "poor Hal, a corporate maintenance programmer", who's boss tries to weasle out of explaining a bad crash by overloading Hal with editing (faking) of logfiles & co.

Needless to say, I was hooked -- straight info towards and a hint of the real power of vi*. If you need to see a glimpse of the power before you're willing to climb that learning curve, go right there.

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[»] Vim6, editor of champions.
by Thomas Hurst - Aug 23rd 2001 09:26:49

Folding, syntax highlighting, more configurable than a very configurable thing, a decent GUI, and in Windows a nice installer - it even intergrates itself into Explorer's context menu (if you ask it to). In easy mode, even a notepad loonie could use it.

And, of course, if you're prepared to get used to it and learn how to use what's probably the most important application you'll ever use, you'll find vim will scale as far as you like.

Don't trust your first experience with it or another vi derivative - once you've got past the first hurdle you'll never look back.

And you won't have to, since it's supported on just about every platform in existance :)

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[»] VIM is my shepherd. I shall not font.
by CrackMonkey - Jan 11th 1999 23:46:55

I actually had the opportunity to meet RMS when he stayed at the CoffeeNet for a few weeks. I was using one of the machines in the cafe (which runs linux exclusively), and had vim going with multiple buffers, command-line completion, and syntax coloring. He looked over my shoulder intently for a few moments, certain that I was using some bizarre form of emacs, and then noticed the absence of the wasted top-line of "Buffers Files etc...". He shuddered out loud and walked back to his filthy toshiba laptop to continue hacking.

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