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Vim is a virtually compatible, extreamly enhanced, version of the UNIX
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text editor vi.
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1998-08-11 10:32:45 +00:00
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There are a lot of enhancements above Vi: multi level undo, multi-windows
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and buffers, syntax highlighting, command line editing, filename completion,
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on-line help, visual selection, etc..
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Many features above standard vi's have been added:
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multiple windows and buffers, multi level undo, command line history,
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filename completion, selection highlighting, block operations (including
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column/rectangular blocks), syntax highlighting, on-line help, etc.
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Embeded Perl, Tcl, and Python support.
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See ":help vi_diff" for a summary of the differences between Vim and Vi.
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1998-08-11 10:32:45 +00:00
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An X-windows aware or a full X-windows GUI version can also be built
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that allows full use of the mouse and pull-down menus
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1998-08-11 10:32:45 +00:00
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See http://www.vim.org/why.html for a full explanation of Vim's features.
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Portability to all UNIX platforms, AmigaOS, Archimedes, Atari MiNT, BeOS,
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M$-DOS, MacOS, OS/2, VMS, WinNT+Win95.
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1997-05-25 02:59:06 +00:00
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-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
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