Vim (text editor)

Vim
Original author(s)Bram Moolenaar
Initial release2 November 1991 (2 November 1991)
Stable release
9.1.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 2 January 2024 (2 January 2024)
Repository
Written inC, Vim script
Operating systemUnix, Linux, Windows NT, MS-DOS, macOS, iOS, Android, Haiku, AmigaOS, MorphOS
TypeText editor
LicenseVim[2][3][4]
Websitewww.vim.org Edit this on Wikidata

Vim (/vɪm/;[5] vi improved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program. It is an improved clone of Bill Joy's vi. Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga[6] and released a version to the public in 1991. Vim is designed for use both from a command-line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface.[7] Since its release for the Amiga, cross-platform development has made it available on many other systems. In 2018, it was voted the most popular editor amongst Linux Journal readers;[8] in 2015 the Stack Overflow developer survey found it to be the third most popular text editor,[9] and in 2019 the fifth most popular development environment.[10]

  1. ^ "Vim 9.1 is available". 2 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  2. ^ "vim/LICENSE". github.com. 20 October 2021. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Vim License". spdx.org. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Vim: uganda.txt". vimhelp.org. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  5. ^ Vim documentation: intro Archived 13 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine: "Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em. It's written with a capital, since it's a name, again like Jim."
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  7. ^ McDonnell, Mark (2014). Pro vim. [Berkeley]. ISBN 978-1-4842-0250-0. OCLC 897466496.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ "Best Editor | Linux Journal". www.linuxjournal.com. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  9. ^ "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015 § IV. Text Editor". Stack Overflow. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  10. ^ "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019 Results". Stack Overflow § VII. Development Environments. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2019.

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