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Vim Turns 20

Posted by samzenpus on from the they-grow-up-so-fast dept.

quanticle writes "20 years ago today, Bram Moolenaar released vim to the public. From the article:'The Vim text editor was first released to the public on November 2, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. Although it was originally designed as a vi clone for the Amiga, it was soon ported to other platforms and eventually grew to become the most popular vi-compatible text editor. It is still actively developed and widely used across several operating systems.' Share your vim stories and your tales of battles with emacs users."

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  1. Re:And this is why emacs beats vim: by makubesu · · Score: 3, Informative

    Vi was also released in 1976.

  2. Re:still using it for remote admin by Ogi_UnixNut · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use it all the time, for editing, for development, for general work, for writing my todo list today. Hell, I sometimes catch myself trying to use VI commands in my web browser, or other GUI programs.

    It's actually come to replace all my other stuff, from IDE's to graphical text editors. I'm really happy with it!

  3. Re:NANO ftw! by IceNinjaNine · · Score: 4, Informative

    More like NANO, wtf?

  4. Re:still using it for remote admin by h4rr4r · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ditto.
    For a web browser look into vimperator.