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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Vim
Vim's multi-mode full screen editing paradigm is a conceptual outgrowth of the original vi editor implementation that, since the early 1980s, has been distributed as an essential part of every operating system that is derived from Unix.
Vim is also the name of a range of household cleaning products produced by Lever Brothers.
Vim scouring powder was one of the first products created by William Lever and produced at Port Sunlight near Liverpool.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vim.html   (313 words)

  
 download : vim online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vim is available for many different systems and there are several versions.
Vim for other Sun systems can be found at http://sunfreeware.com/.
There are several versions of Vim 6.x for Mac OS on http://macvim.org/.
www.vim.org /download.php   (1479 words)

  
 VIM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Currently, it's main purpose is as a showcase for my work on vim syntax files.
Vim is a text editor which is based on vi.
There are over 100 syntax files) Check out (screenshot) or (html rendition of vim session) Once you have done some editing with something that has syntax colouring for every type of file in existence, you will never look back.
www.pegasus.rutgers.edu /~elflord/vim   (284 words)

  
 Vim Editor FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vim is a text editor which includes almost all the commands from the Unix program ``Vi'' and a lot of new ones.
Vim allows you to use the arrow keys while in insert mode to move around in the file.
Vim (and most, if not all, other implementations of Vi) needs a timeout to tell the difference between a simple escape and, say, a cursor key sequence.
www.faqs.org /faqs/editor-faq/vim   (7904 words)

  
 Marty was here.: Vim Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vim isn't as powerful or elegant as Emacs (and for beginners, it has a much steeper learning curve), but it was better at two things I really wanted: syntax highlighting and Unicode support.
In Vim (and old vi) cursor movement commands can be used in combination with other commands.
Making marks in Vim (and old vi) allow you to find particular places in your file without having to scroll or remember line numbers: just remember a letter.
www.martian.org /marty/archives/cat_vim.html   (899 words)

  
 VIM Tutorial
VIM stands for Vi IMproved and is an editor based on the standard UNIX vi (pronounced vee-eye) editor.
Vim is similar enough to vi so that you should be able to use vi with few problems once you've learned vim.
Vim solves this problem by visibly moving the displayed data to the right of the cursor as you replace tabs by non-tab characters.
www.unb.ca /documentation/UNIX/tips/vim   (5753 words)

  
 about Vim : vim online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
What Vim Can Do Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.
Users of Vim 5 should consider upgrading to Vim 6, which is greatly enhanced since Vim 5.
Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
vim.sourceforge.net /about.php   (255 words)

  
 Vim ( Vi Improved )
Vim is the editor I use both at home and at work to edit and maneuver text files, scripts, code, and just about anything else.
Vim has some cool features that are not found in other editors.
If you compile Vim for the Win32 platform yourself, add the two files that are located here, and add them to the project.
users.adelphia.net /~bsturk/vim.html   (1040 words)

  
 Vim Pages
Vim is a vi clone with many very useful extensions, among them multiple undo, a better scripting language and a very flexible and useful syntax highlighting feature.
This is my favorite terminal emulator in X. It gives vim the possibility to use 18 different foreground and background colors.
Some macros that allows vim to use ispell and aspell to highlight incorrectly written words.
www.fleiner.com /vim   (193 words)

  
 Vim page for RISC OS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vim is very widely used and it is likely there will be a syntax colouring mode for anything you might choose to edit (and if not, it shouldn’t be too difficult to create your own).
Vim 5.8 has been tested as the GUI version as well as an ANSI task with Nettle, and should also work in full screen mode too.
If there are any problems with Vim on your system please tell me with as much detail as possible, including version of ZapRedraw/ZapFonts in use and OS version.
www.sparse.net /vim.html   (448 words)

  
 Vim documentation: usr_05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The three items, separated by commas, tell Vim to delete the white space at the start of the line, a line break and the character before where Insert mode started.
Whenever you start editing a file, Vim will try to figure out what kind of file this is. When you edit "main.c", Vim will see the ".c" extension and recognize this as a "c" filetype.
Vim comes with these indent rules for a number of filetypes.
vimdoc.sourceforge.net /htmldoc/usr_05.html   (3141 words)

  
 Softpanorama Western Orthodox Editors Page: VIM -- Folding VI-style Editor
Approximately two dozen macros for Vim in the categories of Toys and Entertainment (for example, a macro for creating text stereograms, and the Tower of Hanoi macro), Documents and Languages (including macros for C, HTML, and LaTex editing), and Miscellaneous (such as a file manager macro).
VIM vs Textedit A subjective evaluation of Textedit from the point of view of advanced vim user.
Vim supports syntax color highlighting and bold fonts which improves the "readability" of program code.
www.softpanorama.org /Editors/vim.shtml   (3048 words)

  
 Vim Regular Expressions 101
Vim is an improved (in many ways) version of vi, a ubiquitous text editor found on any UNIX system.
VIM was created by Bram Moolenaar with a help of other people.
VIM has all features of a modern programmer's editor - macro language, syntax highlighting, customizable user interface, easy integration with various IDEs plus a set of features which makes VIM so attractive to its users: crash recovery, automatic commands, session management.
www.geocities.com /volontir   (2686 words)

  
 Beginner's guide to Vi Improved (vim)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vim is not a difficult editor to learn but it won't be like any other editor you've used.
Vim offers you the ability to rapidly search, edit, copy, and "read in" files in far less time then your average editor.
The reason for this is vim has to pause for a second whenever the first character of one of its maps is pressed.
newbiedoc.sourceforge.net /text_editing/vim.html   (4992 words)

  
 Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing
In Vim it is implemented with scripts and you can further tune it for your own use: for example, to only check the comments in a program for spelling errors.
Vim knows about include files, and can search them for a word you are looking for.
Vim tries to integrate with other programs, but this is still a struggle.
www.moolenaar.net /habits.html   (3230 words)

  
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In vim, you can keep hitting u, undoing many changes; if you hit the u key n times, you cancel the last n changes you've made to the file.
Upon startup vim will first source ~/.vimrc; if that file is not present, it will source ~/.exrc, the standard name for vi startup files.
This is certainly possible with vim and most other modern editors, either by specifying them all at the time you invoke vim from the command line, or for example in GUI mode by clicking the leftmost icon, which shows a picture of an office file being opened.
heather.cs.ucdavis.edu /~matloff/Vim/NotesVim.NM.html   (1330 words)

  
 The VIM (Vi IMproved) Home Page 010227
VIM is an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX systems.
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor: Unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection, graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars, text selection), and much much more.
Vim colorizes texts according to the syntax that defines the "language" the text was written in.
www.vmunix.com /vim   (1743 words)

  
 freshmeat.net: Project details for Vim
Vim is an almost fully-compatible version of the Unix editor Vi.
I was using one of the machines in the cafe (which runs linux exclusively), and had vim going with multiple buffers, command-line completion, and syntax coloring.
He looked over my shoulder intently for a few moments, certain that I was using some bizarre form of emacs, and then noticed the absence of the wasted top-line of "Buffers Files etc...".
freshmeat.net /projects/vim   (607 words)

  
 Vim (Vi IMproved) for Mac OSX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vim is a highly configurable text editor, freely available for many different platforms.
Versions of vim that are linked to external libraries (such as the libraries for perl and python) will only run on one of 10.2 or 10.3.
Note that these instructions only apply to vim version 6.2.128 (that is, vim 6.2 with the first 128 patches) and later.
macvim.org /OSX/index.php   (4171 words)

  
 Gnome-Vim
Gnome-vim is a project to support embedding Vim as a bonobo component.
Besides, Vim already has support for ftp, scp and a few other protocols by means of the netrw plugin (which is included in the vim distribution).
I want to work at cleaning up my vim patch in the hopes that it will be accepted into the official vim distribution.
www.opensky.ca /gnome-vim   (784 words)

  
 Psion 5 VIM Editor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The port is being done with minimal changes to the VIM sources.
The source changes to the generic VIM source are available on the download area.
An early beta version of VIM 5.5 is available from the download area.
www.starship.freeserve.co.uk /vim.html   (247 words)

  
 Moolenaar.net - Vim
Vim has been selected as finalist in the editors category of the LinuxWorld Editors' Choice Awards for 1999.
At the Linuxworld expo in New York, February 2000, Vim was nominated for the slashdot Beanie Award in the category "Open source text editors".
On February 9 2002, I have given a presentation on Vim 6.0 for the NLLGG (Netherlands Linux users group).
www.moolenaar.net /vim.html   (607 words)

  
 Vi-IMproved.org
So after one conversation explaining a large chunk of vim usage, I pulled it out of the logs, and published it (cropped and modified of course) here.
Socrates: it does in vim 6, and I am guessing it does you your version too, I am guessing it just is not prompting you to reload.
Vim has hundreds of features that I did not mention, I only showed "Glaucon" the stuff I use most often, and the stuff I find most useful.
www.vi-improved.org /tutorial.php   (3480 words)

  
 Lanzarottaville - My Vim Stuff
Vim has all the features of the original vi, but Vim also has some other very useful enhancements.
bufexplorer.zip allows you to view a list of all the buffers Vim currently has opened, From the list you can quickly switch to a different buffer of close the buffer without having to know the buffers number.
If you are not using the gui version of Vim, no problem, you will keymappings assigned to allow you to perform the commands.
lanzarotta.tripod.com /vim.html   (311 words)

  
 Vimdoc : the online source for Vim documentation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
If you find Vim a useful addition to your life please consider helping needy children in Uganda.
vimdoc.sourceforge.net   (85 words)

  
 Vim Cookbook
Once this file is generated, you tell Vim that you want edit a procedure, and it will find the file containing that procedure and position you there.
The autoindent setting causes Vim to indent new lines by a similar amount to the one next to them.
It is a good idea to only spend as short a time as possible in a command processor started by the :shell command.
www.oualline.com /vim-cook.html   (3213 words)

  
 The Vim commands cheat sheet
This Vim cheat sheet isn't trying to include all the Vim commands in the known universe, but should list the most essential ones.
If you don't specify a file name, Vim saves as the file name you were editing.
You can type y to substitute this match, n to skip this match, a to substitute this and all the remaining matches ("Yes to all"), and q to quit substitution.
www.tuxfiles.org /linuxhelp/vimcheat.html   (539 words)

  
 Dr Chip's Vim Page
Coupled with the Flist-based Tree plugin for vim 6.0 or later, one can browse the calling tree on the left hand side of the screen, select a function to edit by putting the cursor on its line, and hitting return.
I like keeping the same colorscheme for both gui (gvim) and console (vim); the latter restricts the number of colors available, so such dual-use colorschemes must needs be designed for the limitations of the console.
A temporary save only affects the current vim editing session; a permanent save writes the word to a custom user dictionary which is automatically loaded in the future.
mysite.verizon.net /astronaut/vim   (4303 words)

  
 Cream: The easy-to-use free text editor for Windows and Linux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vim is one of the most powerful, lightweight and full-featured text editors ever created.
Vim is also free and works on most operating systems.
There are also many custom Vim extensions by some notable authors included and configured by default.
cream.sourceforge.net   (300 words)

  
 welcome home : vim online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
This means you can see where Vimmers live and who else in your neighbourhood uses Vim.
vim.sourceforge.net   (332 words)

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