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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 8.1.0412 is the current version

Vimfest 2017 recap

[2018-08-14] Matthias has (finally!) organised all the information about last year's Vimfest in Berlin. The result is a comprehensive overview of all the speakers, slides and videos. Read it all on the vimfest site. Unfortunately, there are no plans for a Vimfest 2018. (Bram Moolenaar)

Migration done

[2018-06-29] If you can see this news entry, then the migration of http://www.vim.org to the new osdn datacenter has been performed. successfully. It might take some time until vim.org resolves to the new host, you can use http://www.vim8.org if you experience issues. (Christian Brabandt)

Vim 8.1 is released!

[2018-05-18] Vim 8.1 is a minor release, a few new features have been added since Vim 8.0. A lot of bugs have been fixed, documentation was updated, etc. The main new feature is the terminal window. More information can be found on this page. (Bram Moolenaar)

Recent patches

Patch 8.1.0412

Problem: Cannot build with GTK 2.4.

Solution: Add back a few #ifdefs. (Ken Takata, closes #3447) Also support older GTK. (Tom Christensen)

Patch 8.1.0411

Problem: Renamed file missing from distribution.

Solution: Rename screen.c to termscreen.c (Zdenek Dohnal, closes #3449)

Patch 8.1.0410

Problem: The ex_copen() function is too long.

Solution: Refactor to split off two functions. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)

Patch 8.1.0409 (after 8.1.0406)

Problem: Startup test fails on MS-Windows.

Solution: Do the Arabic test in silent Ex mode. Loosen the check for -V2.

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  Recent Script Updates 5,602 scripts, 12,423,891 downloads

[2018-09-20] Command-T : Fast file navigation for VIM

(5.0.3) - Fix unlisted buffers showing up in |:CommandTBuffer| listing on Neovim. - Fix edge cases with opening selections in tabs (#315). - Fix possible degenerate performance of |:CommandTBuffer| and   |:CommandTMRU| on Neovim. - Handle missing match listing buffer in Neovim (#342). - Greg Hurrell

[2018-09-19] Vim SQL Workbench : Provides sql access from vim to any DBMS

(8.2.1) * Fixed the latest problem reported on github issue #25 - Cosmin Popescu

[2018-09-13] devops.vim : DevOps ide for VIM

(0.1) Initial upload - suren yufu

[2018-09-12] syntax/dosini.vim : Syntax file for dosini (*.ini)

(2.2) links dosiniValue to String - Hong Xu

[2018-09-09] mkdx.vim : Adds useful mappings for working with markdown files

(1.8.1) - Add: Mkdx can convert tables back to CSV - Fix: Only open quickfix when broken links are present(#56) - Fix: Table highlighting now stops at the end of a table (#57) - Fix: Empty cells in CSV also get a border (#61) - Fix: All hasmapto calls are mode specific (#64) - Fix: g:mkdx#settings.restore_visual can now be disabled during runtime (#65) - Fix: Wrapping at end of line no longer breaks... - Sidney Liebrand

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