Posted on 08-05-2006
Filed Under (Computerworld) by esden

Finally! After years of development a new major release of my and many others favorite text editor is there. It contains many new very nice and useful features:

  • Spell checking support for about 50 languages
  • Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
  • Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
  • Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
  • Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
  • Vim script profiling
  • Improved Unicode support
  • Highlighting of cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
  • Translated manual pages support.
  • Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
  • Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
  • Printing multi-byte text

Grab it here!

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Uwe Hermann on 9 May, 2006 at 12:37 am #

Vim 7 released!

A new major version of our favorite text editor vim [1] has been released!
Yes, that’s that awesome text-mode editor your geeky friends keep telling you about, the one that many people use since many years and still haven’t explored more than 20% of …


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