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Vim 7 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the time-to-get-your-upgrade-on dept.

houseofmore writes "After many years of development, Bram Moolenaar, creator of Vim, today announced version 7 of the widely used editor. New features included spell checking in up to 50 languages, intelligent completion, tab pages, extended undo branches and much more. Downloads available here for Unix, Windows, Mac and more."

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  1. Re:My history with VIM by AnonymousKev · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I was forcefully introduced to vi in 1989. It was in a two-week "Introduction to C" class from Cray. The instructor (I am not making this up: his name was Kermit) had made sure that vi was the only editor on the class computer. I'll never forget his words:
    vi is the most efficient editor ever written. You will hate it intensely for the first two weeks, after that you will discover you can't live without it.
    He was absolutely right.
    --
    Anonymous Kev
    Proudly posting as AC since 1997
    (Finally got a dang account in 2004)