Some Features
Here are some of Vim 5's features. Many of these are specific to Vim,
and will not work on Vi.
 | Syntax Highlightning |
| 26 general Copy and Paste buffers |
| Unlimited Undo/Redo |
| Recovery from crashed sessions |
| Visual Copy and Paste |
| Advanced movements within text |
| Shell commands from the prompt |
| Editing of any ascii character |
| Fast |
| Unix or Dos mode |
| Advanced scripting language |
| Append to Copy and Paste buffers |
| Execute commands from buffers |
| Hebrew and Arabic 'backwards' writing |
| Binary file mode |
| Multiple windows (wow!) |
| Available on most OS |
| Runs under both DOS and Windows on PC |
| Automatic newline |
| Autoindent |
| Keyword lookup |
| Large Helpfile |
| Quickfix edit-compile-edit... |
| Command line history |
| Adjustable wrap-indent |
| Range decides scope of command |
| Command (ie search) can set Range |
| Create your own menus in Win32/X11 |
| Event-driven 'automatic' commands |
| And there's more |
| Much much more :-) |
As you can see, almost everything in Vim is customizable. Most things
are OK they way they are, but you may want to adjust some minor things
to suit your style. Alot depends on what you have used before. It's possible
to make Vim bahave almost like any standard Windows editor. A tip here is to
set backspace=2. Perhaps you are used to Vi? Then there is the Vi-compatible mode.
Vim is programmable with a special scriptlanguage. Someone have done
Towers of Hanio in Vim... Odd!
The Syntax Highlightning facility can be set to any of almost a hundred
different languages, including C/C++, Postscript, Ada, SQL, HTML, Fortran
VRML, BASIC, Pascal, Modula-2, Maple, Matlab, MS-DOS Batfiles, Java...
If you cannot find your language under the Syntax Highlight Menu, you can
always define your own. Its propably not done in an afternoon though!
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Author of Vim 5 is Bram Moolenaar.
Vim 5 is charityware.
