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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 systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware. If you find Vim a useful addition to your life please consider helping needy children in Uganda.


What is Vim online?

Vim online is a central place for the Vim community to store useful Vim tips and tools. Vim has a scripting language that allows for plugin like extensions to enable IDE behavior, syntax highlighting, colorization as well as other advanced features. These scripts can be uploaded and maintained using Vim online.

Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary

[2011-11-26] Ryan Paul wrote a nice article after figuring out that Vim was born 20 years ago. That is the day Vim was first send out to the world. I have actually been working on it a big longer, let's consider that a pregnancy (without the side effects :-). You can find the full article here. (Bram Moolenaar)

Vim: The power tool for everyone! Bram has visited the Vim charity project, read about it in his Uganda visit report.

Recent Script Updates	4,360 scripts, 7,515,468 downloads

[2013-02-12]	tcd.vim : Tab-specific directories
	(1.0) Initial upload - Thomas Allen
[2013-02-11]	vimogen : Zero-configuration Vim Plugin Manager
	(1.2) Initial upload - ryan kulla
[2013-02-11]	Mini Year Todo & Gantt Planner for VIM : Draw a todo list and its Gantt chart over the year
	(0.01) Initial upload - patrick295767 patrick295767
[2013-02-11]	JavaScript Libraries Syntax : Syntax for popular JavasSript libs
	(0.1) Initial upload - wei ko kao
[2013-02-10]	vimcat : print syntax highlighted file to terminal
	(1.7.9) * reset fg color if no fg color is set (GitHub #56) (krijesta) * use #!/usr/bin/env bash as the shebang - Rafael Kitover
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A list of patches available for Vim can be found on the vim_dev maillist pages. These add new or improved features, at the cost of having to rebuild Vim.