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Vim

https://www.vim.org
a highly configurable text editor.

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX-like systems.

Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.

Documentation

https://vimhelp.org/

IRC general channel

irc://irc.freenode.net/vim

Download

https://github.com/vim/vim/archive/refs/tags/v9.1.1029.tar.gz

Donate link

https://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php

VCS Checkout

git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git; hg clone https://bitbucket.org/vim-mirror/vim

Categories

• Editor:programming
• Interface:command-line
• Interface:x-window-system
• Interface:console
• Programming-language:C
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:Windows
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X
• Runs-on:Android
• Runs-on:GNU/Hurd
• Runs-on:iOS
• Text-creation:editor
• UI Toolkit:athena
• UI Toolkit:gtk
• UI Toolkit:motif
• UI Toolkit:ncurses
• UI Toolkit:xlib
• Use:text-creation
• Use:editing
• Use:interface
• Works-with:text

Licensing

License

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Notes

License

Vim1.4

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NameNotQuality, ksiewicz

Verified on

10 January 2024

Notes

https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/LICENSE

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Bram Moolenaar (dead)	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Bug Tracking,Developer,Support	Newsgroup	news:comp.editors
Developers	VCS Repository Webview	https://github.com/vim/vim
Bug Tracking	E-mail	mailto:bugs@vim.org
Users	Download	https://www.vim.org/download.php
Users	Homepage	https://www.vim.org/
Developers	Download	https://github.com/vim/vim/releases
Developer	E-mail	mailto:vim-dev@vim.org
Help	E-mail	mailto:vim-announce@vim.org
Support	E-mail	mailto:vim@vim.org

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	athena for graphical support (gvim)
Weak prerequisite	libxt for X clipboard support (also needed for GUI)
Weak prerequisite	gtk for graphical support (gvim)
Weak prerequisite	X window system for graphical support (gvim)
Weak prerequisite	python for Python support
Required to build	gcc or clang
Weak prerequisite	motif for graphical support (gvim)
Required to use	ncurses
Required to build	autoconf
Weak prerequisite	gtk+ for graphical support (gvim)

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 10 January 2025.

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