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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.

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Vim - the ubiquitous text editor

Vim is a highly configurable text editor for efficiently creating and changing any kind of text. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.

Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Among its features are:

persistent, multi-level undo tree
extensive plugin system
support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats
powerful search and replace
integrates with many tools

  News Vim 8.1.0727 is the current version

Successful VimConf 2018 in Tokyo

[2018-12-01] VimConf was very well organised and there were many interesting talks. I have done a keynote, I hope it was appreciated. You can find the slides listed here. (Bram Moolenaar)

Happy Vim birthday!

[2018-11-04] 27 years ago the first version of Vim was published: 1.14 The date "November 2" can be found in the binary, so that's the official birthday of Vim. You can see my 25 year presentation on Youtube (Bram Moolenaar)

VimConf 2018 in Tokyo

[2018-10-19] The one and only Vim conference will be held on November 24 in Tokyo. You can see the program here. Unfortunately, it's already completely sold out! I'm happy to be invited to do the keynote. (Bram Moolenaar)

Recent patches

Patch 8.1.0727

Problem: Compiler warning for sprintf() argument.

Solution: Add type cast.

Patch 8.1.0726

Problem: Redrawing specifically for conceal feature.

Solution: Use generic redrawing methods.

Patch 8.1.0725

Problem: Conceal mode is not completely tested.

Solution: Add tests for moving the cursor in Insert mode.

Patch 8.1.0724

Problem: Build for MinGW fails.

Solution: Avoid specifying dependencies in included makefile.

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Vim: The power tool for everyone!
See pictures of Bram's latest visit to Uganda on Google Photos.
Read the visit report on the ICCF website.

  Recent Script Updates 5,623 scripts, 12,664,024 downloads

[2019-01-11] Ferret : Enhanced multi-file search for Vim

(4.0.2) - Restore compatibility with versions of `rg` prior to v0.8 (https://github.com/wincent/ferret/issues/59). - Greg Hurrell

[2019-01-11] git-blame.vim : See Git Blame information in the status bar for the currently selected line.

(1.0.4) fix: author time - ziv yangll

[2019-01-09] spotdiff.vim : A range selectable diffthis to compare partially

(3.1) Disable a new internal diff (patch-8.1.360) to work correctly. - Rick Howe

[2019-01-09] Mark : a little script to highlight several words in different colors simultaneously

(1.1.13-g) fix unnamed-register content after visual marking - Yuheng Xie

[2019-01-05] Simple bottom line for gVim : Simple bottom line for gVim

(1.0) Initial upload - A. Astonfe

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