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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 8.2.0140 is the current version

Vim 8.2 is released

[2019-12-13] More than a year after 8.1 and 2424 patches: Here is 8.2! You can read the announcement on this page. Main new feature is support for Popup windows. To show it off a silly game was created. Happy Vimming! (Bram Moolenaar)

VimConf 2019 Videos and Photos available

[2019-12-03] VimConf 2019 was held successfully in Tokyo. Big thanks to the organizers! Videos can now be found on Youtube. Photos can be found on the VimConf website (Bram Moolenaar)

VimConf 2019 tickets now available

[2019-09-10] Last year's VimConf was a great success. You can find links to the slides and videos on the website. VimConf 2019 is taking place on November 3rd in Tokyo. It looks like tickets are still available here. (Bram Moolenaar)

Recent patches

Patch 8.2.0140

Problem: CI does not test building doc tags.

Solution: Add the vimtags/gcc build. Cleanup showing version. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes #5513)

Patch 8.2.0139

Problem: MS-Windows: default for IME is inconsistent.

Solution: Also make IME default enabled with MVC. (Ken Takata, closes #5508)

Patch 8.2.0138

Problem: Memory leak when starting a job fails.

Solution: Free the list of arguments. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes #5510)

Patch 8.2.0137

Problem: Crash when using win_execute() from a new tab.

Solution: Set the tp_*win pointers. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes #5512)

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Vim: The power tool for everyone!
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  Recent Script Updates 5,705 scripts, 15,225,956 downloads

[2020-01-22] vim-quickui : The missing UI extensions for Vim 8.2.

(1.2.1) new `quickui#tools#preview_tag()` to preview function definition in a popup window. - Wei Lin

[2020-01-21] fugitive.vim : A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal

(3.2) Provide :Git mergetool to load conflicts into quickfix list. Provide :Git difftool to load arbitrary changesets into quickfix list. Call FugitiveBlob/FugitiveCommit/etc autocommands on Fugitive buffer load. :Git --paginate display results in temp buffer. :Git --no-pager no longer displays results in temp buffer. Accomodate loading Fugitive buffers in popup window. Better PowerShell support. ... - Tim Pope

[2020-01-21] vim-lastplace : Intelligently reopen files where you left off.

(3.2.1) Small enhancements and updated documentation - Greg Dietsche

[2020-01-21] sfz.vim : Syntax file for .sfz

(1.2) Fixed up a couple bugs with the folding - isaac stone

[2020-01-20] asyncrun : Run Async Shell Commands in Vim 8.0 and Output to Quickfix in Realtime

(2.2.1) set noreletivenumber for terminal window. - Wei Lin

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