Vim 7 (Vi IMproved) Advanced Text Editor Released

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. Bram Moolenaar announces the launch of Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0

Since Vim 6.4 many new features have been added like -

- 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

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. Vim is often called a “programmer’s editor” and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. Besides programmers, it is useful for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files. [Found via Slashdot]