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#VI TEXT EDITOR SOFTWARE#

Text input is facilitated by a variety of features designed to increase keyboard efficiency. Vim is highly customizable and extensible, making it an attractive tool for users who demand a large amount of control and flexibility over their text editing environment. On completion of the command, Vim returns to the previous mode. Normal commands (beginning with :), and some other keys for specific actions (including pattern search and the filter command) activate this mode. Command-line or Cmdline mode – supports a single line input at the bottom of the Vim window.In this mode, buffers can be modified with the text inserted. Insert mode – similar to editing in most modern editors.Normal commands can be run on the highlighted area, for instance to move or edit a selection. Visual mode – similar to normal mode, but used to highlight areas of text.This is also the default mode, unless the insertmode option is specified. Normal mode – used for editor commands.Vim has 12 different editing modes, 6 of which are variants of the 6 basic modes. Vim also has a built-in help facility (using the :help command) that allows users to query and navigate through commands and features.

#VI TEXT EDITOR MANUAL#

The Vim Users' Manual details Vim's features and can be read from within Vim, or found online. Vim has a built-in tutorial for beginners called vimtutor which is usually installed along with Vim, but is a separate executable and can be run with a shell command. Vi (and by extension Vim) tends to allow a typist to keep their fingers on the home row, which can be an advantage for a touch typist.

#VI TEXT EDITOR FULL#

Like vi, Vim's interface is not based on menus or icons but on commands given in a text user interface its GUI mode, gVim, adds menus and toolbars for commonly used commands but the full functionality is still expressed through its command line mode. The Vim license is compatible with the GNU General Public License through a special clause allowing distribution of modified copies under the GNU GPL version 2.0 or later.

#VI TEXT EDITOR SOFTWARE#

Vim is released under the Vim license, which includes some charityware clauses that encourage users who enjoy the software to consider donating to children in Uganda. Terminal window support and terminal gdb plugin. Lua support, Python3 support, Blowfish encryption, persistent undo/redoĪsynchronous I/O support, jobs, lambdas, etc. Spell checking, code completion, tab pages (multiple viewports/window layouts), current line and column highlighting, undo branches, and moreīug fixes, new syntax and runtime files, etc.įloating point support in scripts, refactored screen drawing code, bug fixes, new syntax files, etc. GTK2 and libgnome2 support, Arabic language support, :try command, minor features, bug fixesīug fixes, translation updates, mark improvementsīug fixes, updates to Perl, Python, and Ruby support Long line support, file browser, dialogs, popup menu, select mode, session files, user defined functions and commands, Tcl interface, etc.īasic file encryption, various improvements Syntax highlighting, basic scripting (user defined functions, commands, etc.) This is the first release using the name Vi IMproved. īram Moolenaar creates Vi IMitation for the Amiga, based on Stevie, never publicly releasedįirst public release for the Amiga on Fred Fish disk #591 Tony Andrews improves Stevie, and ports it to Unix and OS/2, releasing version 3.10 on Usenet. Tim Thompson releases Stevie (ST editor for VI enthusiasts), a limited vi clone for the Atari ST, posting the source on Usenet.

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