Awards Vim has been announced as finalist in the editors category of the LinuxWorld Magazine Editorial Awards for 1999. Other contestants were Emacs, Xemacs, Joe and Pico. Info on ICCF Holland. Vim behaves like the standard Unix editor Vi, and adds many useful extensions. It is included in all major Linux distributions.
Most commands are normal key strokes, works very efficient.
Syntax highlighting for over 100 languages. Translates files to HTML with syntax highlighting. Works consistent over many different operating systems. Advanced script language. Visual area selection, any operation can be used on the selection.