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authorobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1998-08-11 18:32:45 +0800
committerobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1998-08-11 18:32:45 +0800
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-Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX text editor vi. Only the 'Q'
-command is missing (you don't need it).
+Vim is a virtually compatible, extreamly enhanced, version of the UNIX
+text editor vi.
-Many new features have been added:
+There are a lot of enhancements above Vi: multi level undo, multi-windows
+and buffers, syntax highlighting, command line editing, filename completion,
+on-line help, visual selection, etc..
+
+Many features above standard vi's have been added:
multiple windows and buffers, multi level undo, command line history,
filename completion, selection highlighting, block operations (including
- column/rectangular blocks), etc.
+ column/rectangular blocks), syntax highlighting, on-line help, etc.
+ Embeded Perl, Tcl, and Python support.
+ See ":help vi_diff" for a summary of the differences between Vim and Vi.
- an X-windows aware or a full X-windows GUI version can also be built
+ An X-windows aware or a full X-windows GUI version can also be built
that allows full use of the mouse and pull-down menus
-Portability to all UNIX platforms, Amiga DOS, MS-DOS, MS-Windows NT, and
- Archimedes.
+See http://www.vim.org/why.html for a full explanation of Vim's features.
+
+Portability to all UNIX platforms, AmigaOS, Archimedes, Atari MiNT, BeOS,
+M$-DOS, MacOS, OS/2, VMS, WinNT+Win95.
-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)