Vim
 Vim is an advanced
text editor that seeks to provide the power of
the editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.
This editor is very useful for editing programs and other
plain ASCII files. All commands are given with normal keyboard
characters, so those who
can type with ten fingers can work very fast. Additionally,
function keys can be defined by the user, and the mouse can be used.
Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and is so useful
for
programming that many consider it to be an entire Integrated
Development Environment. However, this application is
not only
intended for programmers. Vim is highly regarded
for all
kinds of text editing, from composing
email to editing configuration files.
Vim's interface is based on commands given in a text user
interface. Although its graphical user interface, gVim, adds menus and
toolbars for commonly used commands, the software's entire
functionality is still reliant on its command line mode.
Features include:
- 3 modes:
- Command mode
- Insert mode
- Command line mode
- Unlimited undo
- Multiple windows and buffers
- Flexible insert mode
- Syntax highlighting - highlight portions of the
buffer in different colors or styles, based on the type of file being
edited
- Interactive commands
- Marking a line
- vi line buffers
- Shift a block of code
- Block operators
- Command line history
- Extended regular expressions
- Edit compressed/archive files (gzip, bzip2, zip, tar)
- Filename completion
- Block operations
- Jump tags
- Folding text
- Indenting
- ctags and cscope intergration
- 100% vi compatibility mode
- Plugins to add/extend functionality
- Macros
- vimscript, Vim's internal scripting language
- Unicode support
- Multi-language support
- Integrated On-line help
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