Vim
Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.
- Free
- Open Source
- Mac OS X
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- OpenSolaris
vim ("vi improved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content.
vim offers several “modes” for editing with efficiency. this makes vim a nonuserfriendly application but it is also a strength. the normal mode binds alphanumeric keys to taskoriented commands. the visual mode highlights text. the commandline mode offers more tools (for search&replace, defining functions, etc.)
vim comes with complete help.
Links to official Vim sites
Features
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Plugin manager Configurability Keyboard focused Modal editor Small size Terminal based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs
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