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- From: mool@oce.nl (Bram Moolenaar)
- Subject: v41i050: vim - Vi IMitation editor, v2.0, Part00/25
- Message-ID: <csm-v41i050=vim.214055@sparky.Sterling.COM>
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- Keywords: utility, editor, vi, vim
- Sender: kent@sparky.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
- Organization: Sterling Software
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 03:41:36 GMT
- Approved: kent@sparky.sterling.com
-
- Submitted-by: mool@oce.nl (Bram Moolenaar)
- Posting-number: Volume 41, Issue 50
- Archive-name: vim/part00
- Environment: UNIX, AMIGA, MS-DOS
- Supersedes: vim: Volume 37, Issue 1-24
-
- Vim - Vi IMproved. A clone of the UNIX text editor Vi. Very useful for
- editing programs and other plain ASCII text. Full Vi compatibility (except Q
- command, you don't need it). Includes most Ex commands.
-
- Extra features above Vi: Multilevel undo, command line history, improved
- command line editing, command typeahead display, command to display yank
- buffers, possibility to edit binary files, line wrapping can be switched off,
- file name stack, can be adjusted to understand error messages from any
- compiler, shows current file name in window title, on-line help, etc.
-
- Version 2.0, update to 1.27. Most important changes:
- - 'wrap' option to switch line wrapping on/off
- - filename completion is more like other programs and adjustable
- - automatic detection of CR/LF line separator
- - '-b' command line option to make editing binary files more easy
- - added abbreviation
- - :make command for quickly jumping to errors
- - MSDOS version uses bios calls for screen output, ansi.sys not needed
- - many small changes to make Vim more vi-compatible
-
- Portability: Vim is currently running on Unix, MSdos and Amiga. Vim should
- run on any UNIX system, although small modification may be required. It has
- been tested on Sun, Ultrix, linux, hpux and many others. For MSDOS it can be
- compiled with Turbo C and Borland C++.
-
- Distribution:
- comp.binaries.ibm.pc: vim_dos.zip: MSDOS binary and documentation
-
- comp.binaries.amiga: vim_bin.lha: Amiga binary and documentation
-
- comp.sources.misc: shell archive with sources and documentation
-
- The documentation is almost the same for all systems. For MSDOS CR-LF is used
- for line separator. For Amiga .info files are included. For the shell archive
- some files are uuencoded because of unprintable characters.
-
- Note that some files are uuencoded. I had to do this because there are
- non-printable characters in these files that may be mangled by news. The
- files are readable ASCII otherwise. To unpack the files completely unshar
- the entire distribution and then run the file execute.me. This will uudecode
- the files as appropriate.
-
- Vim is charityware. Read uganda.txt for details.
-
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