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Vim - the ubiquitous text editor

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. 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 9.1.0224 is the current version 

Vim 9.1 is released!

[2024-01-02] The Vim project is happy to announce that Vim 9.1 has finally been released. This release is dedicated to Bram Moolenaar, Vims lead developer for more than 30 years, who suddenly passed away in August 2023. The most notable changes are support for Vim9 classes and objects, smooth scrolling support and virtual text support. And as usual, runtime files have been updated, many bugs have been fixed and potential security relevant fixes have been included. You can find the full announcement here. (Christian Brabandt)

A new Vim.org Homepage

[2023-10-12] The Vim homepage will be renovated by a few students from the FH University Salzburg. Development will happen at a new Github repository. Feedback is very welcome and can happen at the vim_dev mailing list or at the github repository.
See the announcement. (Christian Brabandt)

New Vim.org Homepage Hosting

[2023-09-26] The Vim project has been moved to a new hosting provider.
The hosting should be much more stable now and database problems should now also been solved.
Thanks to Wavestack for hosting us. (Christian Brabandt)

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  Recent Script Updates  5,940 scripts, 17,798,806 downloads 
[2024-03-27]  vim-CtrlXA : make Ctrl-X and Ctrl-A run through keyword cycles
(1.12) reorganize localized lists for easier customization - Enno Nagel
[2024-03-24]  findgrep.vim : An interactive FindGrep command to mimic emacs find-grep command
(1) Initial upload - Raveen Kumar
[2024-03-22]  asyncrun : Run Async Shell Commands in Vim 8.0 and Output to Quickfix in Realtime
(2.12.5) - set `g:asyncrun_mode` to 1 during creating a terminal buffer and clear it to 0 after buffer has been created. - script triggered by the `#TerminalOpen` or `#TermOpen` autocmd can use it to detect if this terminal is created by asyncrun. - Wei Lin
[2024-03-21]  vim-gpt-commit : Generate git commit message using ChatGPT in Vim
(1.0.2) - Refactor gptcommit.py to dynamically form the API URL based on the provided options. - Update a test case function with new URL and additional arguments. - Wei Lin
[2024-03-21]  vim-quickui : The missing UI extensions for Vim 9
(1.4.6) - suppress annoying messages in the cmd line when closing context menu. - minor improvements - Wei Lin
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