15 May, 2006

Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0

The version 7.0 of the popular editor is out. Some of the new features that have been added are:
  • 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
Download Vim 7.0 @ Vim Homepage

Linux.com has explanations for some of the new features

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