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!
Uwe Hermann
on May 9th, 2006
@ 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 …