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</table> <br>  <center><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10451">Linux Journal<br>readers choice 2009</a></center> <p> <center><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065">Linux Journal<br>readers choice 2008</a></center> <p> <center><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8520">Linux Journal<br>readers choice 2005</a></center> <p> <center><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/pressreleases/10122004"><img src="images/linuxjournal2004s.png" alt="Linux Journal 2004 Readers' Choice" border="0" width="119" height="115"></a></center> <p> <center><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7029"><img src="images/linuxjournal2003.png" alt="Linux Journal 2003 Readers' Choice" border="0" width="128" height="122"></a></center> <p> <center><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/63800"><img src="images/linuxjournal2002.png" alt="Linux Journal 2002 Readers' Choice" border="0" width="100" height="100"></a></center> <p> <center><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5441"><img src="images/linuxjournal2001.png" alt="Linux Journal 2001 Readers' Choice" border="0" width="143" height="143"></a></center> <p> <br>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td class="darkbg"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""><br></td> <td> <table width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0" bordercolor="red"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h1>What Vim Can Do</h1> <p> Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're <a href='viusers.php'>already using vi</a> or <a href='others.php'>using a different editor</a>. Users of Vim 5 and 6 should consider upgrading to Vim 7. The main advantages of Vim 6 compared to Vim 5 can be found on <a href='vim5users.php'>this page</a>. </p> <h1>A General Overview</h1> <a href="http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/0xBABAF000L/10_en.html"><img src='/images/0xbabaf000l.png' alt="Emaks-Vim-Notepad comic" width="800" height="254"></a> Copyright (c) 2007 Laurent Gregoire <h4>What Is Vim?</h4> <p> Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. <p> Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire <abbr title='integrated development environment'>IDE</abbr>. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files. </p> <p> Despite what the above comic suggests, Vim can be configured to work in a very simple (Notepad-like) way, called evim or Easy Vim. </p> <h4>What Vim Is Not?</h4> <p> Vim isn't an editor designed to hold its users' hands. It is a tool, the use of which must be learned. </p> <p> Vim isn't a word processor. Although it can display text with various forms of highlighting and formatting, it isn't there to provide WYSIWYG editing of typeset documents. (It is great for editing TeX, though.) </p> <h4>Vim's License</h4> <p> Vim is charityware. Its license is GPL-compatible, so it's distributed freely, but we ask that if you find it useful you make a donation to help children in Uganda through the <a href='http://iccf-holland.org/'>ICCF</a>. The full license text can be found in the <a href='http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html#license'>documentation</a>. Much more information about charityware on <A HREF="http://Charityware.info/">Charityware.info</a>. </p> <h4>Vim in Six Kilobytes</h4> <p> If all of this information is overwhelming, try a smaller dose. We can expound the wonders of <a href='6kbyte.php'>vim in just six kilobytes</a> -- and in more languages than you can shake a stick at! </p> <h4>Testimonials</h4> <p> Don't take our word for it! Read what <a href='https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/quotes.html'>others have said</a> about Vim. </p> <h4>Vim sponsors</h4> <p> The people at HostingAdvice.com like Vim so much they have written <a href="http://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/vim-creator-champions-charityware">an article about it</a>. </p> <p> Other websites like <a href="https://www.dotcom-monitor.com/web-application-monitoring-tools/">Dotcom Monitor</a> and <a href="https://webhostingbuddy.com/">Web Hosting Buddy</a> have written articles about Vim and its use in development. You can read it <a href="https://www.dotcom-monitor.com/dotcom-monitor-supports-vim/" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="https://webhostingbuddy.com/vim-the-charitable-code-editor/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. </p> <p> Vim is also championed by a variety of tech companies who use it in developing web applications including <a href="https://www.loadview-testing.com">Load View Testing</a>. </p>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td class="darkbg"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""><br></td> <td class="sidebar"> <table width="128" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td class="sidebar"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="sidebar" align='center' style="padding-top: 16px"> Help Uganda </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="sidebar" align='center'>  <br> <a href="https://iccf-holland.org/vim_books.html"><img src="/images/learning_vi_vim_8_small.png" alt="Buy a book, help Uganda, learn Vim"></a> <br> <a href="http://iccf-holland.org/click1.html">Buy at Amazon</a> </td> </tr>  </table> </td> </tr> </table>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bordercolor="red"> <tr><td colspan="4"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="5" alt=""></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" bgcolor="#000000"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" height="2" width="1" alt=""></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="5" alt=""></td></tr> <tr> <td><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="5" height="1" alt=""></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><small> If you have questions or remarks about this site, visit the <a href="http://vimonline.sf.net">vimonline development</a> pages. 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