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Vim - Editor

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."

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.vim.org
Source informationhttp://vim.sf.net/download.php
Version 6.3 (stable) released on 2003-06-08
Licensed under Vim 1.4.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User FAQ available in HTML from http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/vimfaq.html; User manual available in HTML, PostScript, and PDF format from http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/
Support contacts

Announce List<vim-announce@vim.org> http://vim.sourceforge.net/maillist.php#announce
Help List<vim@vim.org> http://vim.sourceforge.net/maillist.php#announce
Help Newscomp.editors
Developer List<vim-dev@vim.org> http://vim.sourceforge.net/maillist.php#dev-dev
Developer Newscomp.editors
Bug List<bugs@vim.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacescommand line, X Window System
Source languagesC
Related programsEmacs

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-03-06
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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