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Vim - the ubiquitous text editor

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.

Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Among its features are:
  • persistent, multi-level undo tree
  • extensive plugin system
  • support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats
  • powerful search and replace
  • integrates with many tools

  News  Vim 8.0.0065 is the current version 

Happy 25th birthday!

[2016-11-02] Vim version 1.14 was the first public release of Vim, distributed on Fred Fish disk 591. The executable has the version information "Vi IMitation v1.14 (Nov 2 1991 0:36:35)". That is exactly 25 years ago. Raise your glass to Vim! (Bram Moolenaar)

Nice article about Vim on hostingadvice.com

[2016-10-21] Releasing version 8.0 and getting close to the 25th birthday inspired the writing of this article. It contains links to relevant info and can be used to convince a friend to start using Vim. (Bram Moolenaar)

Vim 8.0 released!

[2016-09-12] After more than ten years there is a major Vim release. It gives you interesting new features, such as channels, JSON, Jobs, Timers, Partials, Lambdas, Closures, Packages and more. Test coverage has been increased, many bugs were fixed, this is a rock stable version. Read more about it in the announcement. (Bram Moolenaar)

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  Recent Script Updates  5,352 scripts, 11,490,844 downloads 
[2016-11-04]  Despacio : Vim Colorscheme
(4) Added 4 new modes to darken Despacio ( Sunset, Twilight, Midnight, Pitch ) Added Terminal themes and Xresources for all modes Improved visibility for Prompt Status and Visual Aid Highlight Groups Improved analogous colors throughout - Alessandro Yorba
[2016-11-04]  MUcomplete : Chained (fallback) completion that works the way you want!
(0.3.1) Respect completeopt's settings, including noinsert and noselect. - Lifepillar
[2016-11-02]  vim-alias : versatile vim-command line aliases
(1.4) Handle Aliases that extend each other and end in non-word characters - Enno Nagel
[2016-11-02]  asyncrun : Run Async Shell Commands in Vim 8.0 and Output to Quickfix in Realtime
(1.3.5) new option "g:asyncrun_auto" and "-auto=?" to trigger QuickFixCmdPre and QuickFixCmdPost. and can cooperate with errormaker.vim now - Wei Lin
[2016-11-01]  Vim SQL Workbench : Provides sql access from vim to any DBMS
(6.2.1) * minor bug fix - Cosmin Popescu
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