Vim is a great text editor – but Vimscript makes it even better. Vimscript, Vim’s built-in scripting language, allows you to extend Vim however you want. You can write your own commands and functions ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>I've got a quick question on vim scripting. When vim opens a file (including a file opened when vim starts up -- i.e. "vim foo.c"), I'd like it to examine the full path of the file, ...

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 ...

The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl. Bram Moolenaar, the developer behind Vim, has ...

The command-line editor receives full Wayland support for the first time. Vim9-Script gets new data types, and the Diff mode becomes more powerful. Vim 9.2 is here: The command-line editor's release ...

Today, most of us use graphical text editors, but many developers still use vi, or its modern clone Vim, or Emacs, and they're as passionate about their choice of editors as ever. I'm not sure why ...

IDEs have surrounded developers since long, but the older generation of developers used to write their code right from the terminal window. Although IDEs increase productivity and made it easier to ...