VIM - Vi IMproved ftp directory

Vim is a professional text editor. It can be used to edit plain ASCII in a highly productive way. Although it is aimed at programmers, it can be used for many purposes.

Vim has been announced as finalist in the editors category of the LinuxWorld Magazine Editorial Awards for 1999.
At the Linuxworld expo in New York, February 2000, Vim was nominated for the slashdot Beanie Award in the category "Open source text editors". Other contestants were Emacs, Xemacs, Joe and Pico. Vim won!     Info on the Beanie Awards The $2000 price has been donated to ICCF Holland, to help the orphans in Uganda.     Info on ICCF Holland.

Vim behaves like the standard Unix editor Vi, and adds many useful extensions. It is included in all major Linux distributions. Vim runs on many different operating systems, including MS-Windows, OS/2, Unix (many), Amiga, VMS and Macintosh.

• Most commands are normal key strokes, works very efficient.
• Syntax highlighting for over 100 languages.
• Translates files to HTML with syntax highlighting.
• Works consistent over many different operating systems.
• Advanced script language.
• 99.9% backwards compatible with Vi.
• Visual area selection, any operation can be used on the selection.
• Recording of commands.
• Many more.

For a whole lot of information about Vim, go to www.vim.org

You can download Vim from this ftp site. here is the complete directory list.

Version 5.7 is the latest officially released version.

To obtain the full set of sources, download the runtime and source archives from the Unix directory, and the extra archive from the extra directory. Thus you need to download three archives.

For more binaries (HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, Debian, RedHad, SparcLinux, NextSTEP, OSF, SunOS, Solaris, BeOS, etc.) look here.