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What is Vim?

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.

News	Vim 7.3.1019 is the current version

Work on Vim 7.4 has started

[2013-05-17] 7.3 has more than 950 patches, that's too many! Time for a new (minor) release. The plan is to (1) improve Python support, (2) include a faster regexp engine and (3) include pending patches and fix bugs. A test version should be available end of May. The release happens when it appears to work well. (Bram Moolenaar)

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Recent Script Updates	4,506 scripts, 7,818,325 downloads

[2013-05-25]	lua.vim : Lua file type plug-in for the Vim text editor
	(0.7.10) • Document vim-misc as external dependency (needs to be installed separately from now on): http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-ftplugin/commit/a959a1b - Peter Odding
[2013-05-25]	git log : A simple Git Log and History diff tool
	(3.0.0) submodules And now for the understatement. Added Sub-Module support. Simple. - Peter Antoine
[2013-05-25]	easytags.vim : Automated tag file generation and syntax highlighting of tags in Vim
	(3.3.6) • Document vim-misc as external dependency (needs to be installed separately from now on): http://github.com/xolox/vim-easytags/commit/7916b46 - Peter Odding
[2013-05-25]	vim-colorscheme-switcher : Easily & quickly switch between color schemes
	(0.2.4) • Document vim-misc as external dependency (needs to be installed separately from now on): http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/afeefed - Peter Odding
[2013-05-25]	session.vim : Extended session management for Vim
	(2.3.7) • Persist Vim's verbosity (makes it easier to debug :RestartVim :-): http://github.com/xolox/vim-session/commit/62410ba • Improve integration between vim-shell & vim-session: http://github.com/xolox/vim-session/commit/b2cdcaf - Peter Odding

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Vim Tips

The tips are located on the Vim Tips wiki. This is a platform to exchange tips and tricks from and for Vim users.

Vim Patches

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.




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