Vim (text editor)#Neovim

Vim's forerunner, Stevie (ST Editor for VI Enthusiasts), was created by Tim Thompson for the Atari ST in 1987{{cite web |first=Tim |last=Thompson |date=2000-03-26 |url=http://nosuch.com/tjt/stevie/ |title=Stevie |access-date=2010-12-27 |archive-date=4 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104222833/http://nosuch.com/tjt/stevie/ |url-status=live }}{{cite newsgroup |title=A mini-vi for the ST |author=Tim Thompson |date=1987-06-28 |newsgroup=comp.sys.atari.st |message-id=129@glimmer.UUCP |url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.atari.st/msg/8db96f888d778a32?dmode=source |access-date=2010-12-27 |archive-date=9 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109202954/http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.atari.st/msg/8db96f888d778a32?dmode=source |url-status=live }} and further developed by Tony Andrews{{cite newsgroup |title=v15i037: Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga |author=Tony Andrews |date=1988-06-06 |newsgroup=comp.sources.unix |message-id=893@fig.bbn.com |url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.unix/msg/1fccf6a82259beed?dmode=source |access-date=2010-12-27 |archive-date=9 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109202944/http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.unix/msg/1fccf6a82259beed?dmode=source |url-status=live }} and G.R. (Fred) Walter.{{cite web|author1=Vim|title=intro.txt|url=https://vimhelp.appspot.com/intro.txt.html|website=Vim Help|publisher=Vim|access-date=9 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709041643/https://vimhelp.appspot.com/intro.txt.html |language=en|date=20 January 2015|archive-date=9 July 2016}}{{cite web|title=vim(1)|url=http://linux.die.net/man/1/vim|website=die.net|publisher=Vim|access-date=9 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709133642/http://linux.die.net/man/1/vim |archive-date=9 July 2016|date=11 April 2006|quote=Vim is based on Stevie, worked on by: Tim Thompson, Tony Andrews and G.R. (Fred) Walter. Although hardly any of the original code remains.}} It was one of the first popularized clones of Vi, and did not use Vi's source code. The source code for Vi used the Ed text editor developed under AT&T, and therefore Vi could only be used by those with an AT&T source license.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} Basing Vim on the source code for Stevie meant the program could be distributed without requiring the AT&T source license.

Basing his work on Stevie, Bram Moolenaar began working on Vim for the Amiga computer in 1988, with the first public release (Vim v1.14) in 1991.{{cite web |last=Moolenaar |first=Bram |date=10 October 2000 |title=The continuing story of Vim |url=http://moolenaar.net/vimstory.pdf |url-status=live |website=moolenaar.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418061526/http://moolenaar.net/vimstory.pdf |archive-date=18 April 2012 |access-date=19 September 2011}}{{cite web|url=https://jovicailic.org/2014/06/the-history-of-vim/|title=The history of Vim – Jovica Ilic|date=5 June 2014|access-date=25 January 2020|archive-date=25 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125113304/https://jovicailic.org/2014/06/the-history-of-vim/|url-status=live}}{{better source needed|date=January 2020}}

At the time of its first release, the name "Vim" was an acronym for "Vi IMitation", but this changed to "'Vi IMproved" late in 1993.{{cite web |url=https://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.faq.html#clone_began |title=VILE (Vi Like Emacs) – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) |access-date=7 September 2019 |archive-date=31 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831142828/https://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.faq.html#clone_began |url-status=live }}

Vim is released under the Vim license, which includes some charityware clauses that encourage users who enjoy the software to consider donating to children in Uganda. The Vim license is compatible with the GNU General Public License through a special clause allowing distribution of modified copies under the GNU GPL version 2.0 or later.

File:Gvim-7.3-menu.png

Like vi, Vim's interface is not based on menus or icons but on commands given in a text user interface; its GUI mode, gVim, adds menus and toolbars for commonly used commands but the full functionality is still expressed through its command line mode. Vi (and by extension Vim) tends to allow a typist to keep their fingers on the home row, which can be an advantage for a touch typist.{{cite book|last1=Lamb|first1=Linda|last2=Robbins|first2=Arnold|title=Learning the Vi Editor|date=1998|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|isbn=9781565924260|page=[https://archive.org/details/learningvieditor00lamb/page/305 305]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/learningvieditor00lamb/page/305}}

Vim has a built-in tutorial for beginners called vimtutor, which is usually installed along with Vim, but is a separate executable and can be run with a shell command.{{cite web|url=http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_01.html#tutor|title=Vim documentation: usr_01|last=Moolenaar|first=Bram|date=3 November 2010|access-date=28 August 2019|archive-date=29 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729064500/http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_01.html#tutor|url-status=live}} The Vim Users' Manual details Vim's features and can be read from within Vim, or found online.[https://vimhelp.org/ Vim help files] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232300/https://vimhelp.org/ |date=13 January 2019 }} at vimhelp.org{{Cite book|title=Vi IMproved (VIM)|isbn=0-7357-1001-5|first=Steve|last=Oualline|publisher=New Riders Publishers|date=April 2001|url=http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/doc/book/vimbook-OPL.pdf|access-date=11 October 2021|archive-date=19 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119082135/http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/doc/book/vimbook-OPL.pdf|url-status=live}}

Vim also has a built-in help facility (using the :help command) which allows users to query and navigate through commands and features.

Vim features various special memory entries called registers (not to be confused with hardware or processor registers). When cutting, deleting, copying, or pasting text the user can choose to store the manipulated text in a register. There are 36 general-purpose registers associated with letters and numbers ([a-z0-9]) and a range of special ones that either contain special values (current filename, last command, etc.) or serve a special purpose.{{r|:2|page=85}}

File:Vim modes.svg

Like vi, vim supports multiple editing modes. Depending on the mode, typed characters are interpreted either as sequences of commands or are inserted as text. In Vim there are 14 editing modes, 7 basic modes and 7 variants:{{cite web |last1=Moolenaar |first1=Bram |title=Vim: intro.txt |url=https://vimhelp.org/intro.txt.html |website=vimhelp.org |access-date=1 September 2023}}

• Normal mode – used for editor commands. This is generally the default mode and by default hitting {{key press|ESC}} returns the editor to this mode.
• Insert mode – used for typing text in a way similar to most modern editors. In this mode, opened text in buffers can be modified with the text entered from the keyboard.{{Cite web |title=CS107 The Vim Editor |url=https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs107/resources/vim.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127153621/https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs107/resources/vim.html |archive-date=27 January 2023 |access-date=2023-01-27 |website=web.stanford.edu}}{{r|Lamb1998|pp=12}}
• Visual mode – used to select areas of text. Commands can be run on the selected area – moving, editing, filtering via built-in or external command, etc.
• Visual linewise, a subtype of visual mode which selects one or more whole lines
• Visual blockwise, another subtype which selects a rectangular block of text across one or more lines
• Select mode – similar to visual, but the commands are not interpreted, instead, highlighted text is directly replaced by input from the keyboard; similar to the selection mode used in editors on Microsoft Windows platforms
• Command-line or Cmdline mode – provides a single line input at the bottom of the Vim window. Commands (beginning with {{key press|:}}) and some other keys for specific actions (including pattern search and the filter command) activate this mode. On completion of the command, Vim returns to the previous mode.{{r|Lamb1998|pp=12}}
• Ex mode – accepts a sequence of commands.
• Terminal-Job mode - Interacting with a job in a terminal window.

Vim is highly customizable and extensible, making it an attractive tool for users who demand a large amount of control and flexibility over their text editing environment.{{cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3037629/why-vim-an-80s-text-editor-is-still-the-ui-of-choice-for-power-users|website=FastCompany|last=Melendez|first=Steven|title=Why Vim, An '80s Text Editor, Is Still The UI Of Choice For Power Users|date=28 October 2014|access-date=5 May 2019|archive-date=6 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506013107/https://www.fastcompany.com/3037629/why-vim-an-80s-text-editor-is-still-the-ui-of-choice-for-power-users|url-status=live}} Text input is facilitated by a variety of features designed to increase keyboard efficiency. Users can execute complex commands with "key bindings," which can be customized and extended. The "recording" feature allows for the creation of macros to automate sequences of keystrokes and call internal or user-defined functions and mappings. Abbreviations, similar to macros and key mappings, facilitate the expansion of short strings of text into longer ones and can also be used to correct mistakes. Vim also features an "easy" mode for users looking for a simpler text editing solution.{{cite web |title=Tips: Making Vim easy |url=https://www.linux.com/news/tips-making-vim-easy |website=Linux.com |access-date=6 May 2019 |date=2007-04-10 |archive-date=6 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506013124/https://www.linux.com/news/tips-making-vim-easy |url-status=live }}

There are many plugins available that extend or add new functionality to Vim. These plugins are usually written in Vim's internal scripting language, vimscript (also known as VimL),{{cite web|url=https://vimhelp.org/usr_41.txt.html#vim-script-intro|title=Vim documentation: usr_41|website=vimhelp.org|access-date=13 January 2019|archive-date=13 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232237/https://vimhelp.org/usr_41.txt.html#vim-script-intro|url-status=live}} but can be written in other languages as well.

There are projects bundling together complex scripts and customizations and aimed at turning Vim into a tool for a specific task or adding a major flavour to its behaviour. Examples include Cream, which makes Vim behave like a click-and-type editor, or VimOutliner, which provides a comfortable outliner for users of Unix-like systems.

Vim has a vi compatibility mode, but when that mode is not used, Vim has many enhancements over vi.Vim help system (type "[https://vimhelp.org/ :help]" within Vim) However even in compatibility mode, Vim is not entirely compatible with vi as defined in the Single Unix Specification{{citation | url = http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html | title = "vi — screen-oriented (visual) display editor", Single Unix Specification, Version 4 (IEEE Std 1003.1–2008) | author = The Open Group | access-date = 2010-12-27 | year = 2008 | archive-date = 22 January 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110122015032/http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html | url-status = live }} and POSIX (e.g., Vim does not support vi's open mode, only visual mode). Vim's developers state that it is "very much compatible with Vi".{{cite web|url=https://vimhelp.org/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-1.3|title=Vim FAQ|author1=Peppe|author2=Benji|first3=Charles|last3=Campbell|date=2004-01-02|access-date=2010-12-27|archive-date=13 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232234/https://vimhelp.org/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-1.3|url-status=live}} (question 1.3)

Some of Vim's enhancements include completion functions, comparison and merging of files (known as vimdiff), a comprehensive integrated help system, extended regular expressions, scripting languages (both native and through alternative scripting interpreters such as Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, etc.) including support for plugins, a graphical user interface (gvim), limited integrated development environment-like features, mouse interaction (both with and without the GUI), folding, editing of compressed or archived files in gzip, bzip2, zip, and tar format and files over network protocols such as SSH, FTP, and HTTP, session state preservation, spell checking, split (horizontal and vertical) and tabbed windows, Unicode and other multi-language support, syntax highlighting, trans-session command, search and cursor position histories, multiple level and branching undo/redo history which can persist across editing sessions, and visual mode.{{fact|date=March 2024}}

While running, Vim saves the user's changes in a swap file with the ".swp" extension. This file can be used to recover after a crash. If a user tries to open a file and a swap file already exists, Vim will warn the user, and if the user proceeds, Vim will use a swap file with the extension ".swo" (or, if there is already more than one swap file, ".swn", ".swm", etc.).{{cite web |title=Vim documentation: recover |url=http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/recover.html |website=vimdoc.sourceforge.net |access-date=17 December 2020 |archive-date=13 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213232131/http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/recover.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=How to handle swapfiles in Vim |url=https://cs.longwood.edu/VimSwap.html |website=cs.longwood.edu |access-date=17 December 2020 |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507102651/https://cs.longwood.edu/VimSwap.html |url-status=live }} The feature can be disabled.{{cite web |url=https://vimhelp.org/options.txt.html#'swapfile' |title='swapfile' option |date=10 October 2020 |website=vimhelp.org |access-date=18 December 2020 |archive-date=14 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214004148/https://vimhelp.org/options.txt.html#'swapfile' |url-status=live }}

Vim script (also called Vimscript or VimL){{cite web|url=https://pragprog.com/book/bkviml/the-viml-primer|access-date=25 January 2020|title=The VimL Primer: Edit Like a Pro with Vim Plugins and Scripts by Benjamin Klein | The Pragmatic Bookshelf|last=Klein|first=Benjamin|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125123547/https://pragprog.com/book/bkviml/the-viml-primer|archive-date=25 January 2020}} is the scripting language built into Vim.{{cite web|url=https://vimhelp.org/usr_41.txt.html|title=Vim documentation: usr_41|website=vimhelp.org|access-date=13 January 2019|archive-date=13 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232237/https://vimhelp.org/usr_41.txt.html|url-status=live}} Based on the ex editor language of the original vi editor, early versions of Vim added commands for control flow and function definitions. Since version 7, Vim script also supports more advanced data types such as lists and dictionaries and a simple form of object-oriented programming. Built-in functions such as map() and filter() allow a basic form of functional programming, and Vim script has lambda since version 8.0. Vim script is mostly written in an imperative programming style.

Vim macros can contain a sequence of normal-mode commands, but can also invoke ex commands or functions written in Vim script for more complex tasks. Almost all extensions (called plugins or more commonly scripts) of the core Vim functionality are written in Vim script, but plugins can also utilize other languages like Perl,{{cite web | url = http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_perl.html | title = Vim documentation: if_perl | access-date = 2019-08-27 | last1 = Verdoolaege | first1 = Sven | last2 = Gerassimof | first2 = Matt | archive-date = 8 February 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120208154924/http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_perl.html | url-status = live }} Python,{{cite web | url = http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_pyth.html | title = Vim documentation: if_pyth | access-date = 2019-08-27 | last = Moore | first = Paul | archive-date = 22 August 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120822072929/http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_pyth.html | url-status = live }} Lua,{{cite web | url = http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_lua.html | title = Vim documentation: if_lua | access-date = 2019-08-27 | last = Carvalho | first = Luis | archive-date = 30 March 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120330221044/http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_lua.html | url-status = live }} Ruby,{{cite web | url = http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_ruby.html | title = Vim documentation: if_ruby | access-date = 2019-08-27 | last = Maeda | first = Shugo | archive-date = 14 February 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120214174436/http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_ruby.html | url-status = live }} Tcl,{{cite web | url = http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_tcl.html | title = Vim documentation: if_tcl | access-date = 2019-08-27 | last = Wilken | first = Ingo | archive-date = 24 August 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120824172051/http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_tcl.html | url-status = live }} or Racket.{{cite web | url = http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_mzsch.html | title = Vim documentation: if_mzsch | access-date = 2019-08-27 | last = Khorev | first = Sergey | archive-date = 14 April 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120414232343/http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_mzsch.html | url-status = live }} These plugins can be installed manually, or through a plugin manager such as Vundle, Pathogen, or Vim-Plug.

Vim script files are stored as plain text, similarly to other code, and the filename extension is usually .vim. One notable exception to that is Vim's config file, .vimrc.

" This is the Hello World program in Vim script.

echo "Hello, world!"

" This is a simple while loop in Vim script.

let i = 1

while i < 5

echo "count is" i

let i += 1

endwhile

unlet i

While vi was originally available only on Unix operating systems, Vim has been ported to many operating systems including AmigaOS (the initial target platform), Atari MiNT, BeOS, DOS, Windows starting from Windows NT 3.1, OS/2, OS/390, MorphOS, OpenVMS, QNX, RISC OS, Linux, BSD, and Classic Mac OS."[https://vimhelp.org/#sys-file-list :help sys-file-list]"
{{cite web |url=http://www.vim.org/download.php |title=Vim Online: Downloads |access-date=2007-01-07 |archive-date=8 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108142446/http://www.vim.org/download.php |url-status=live }} Also, Vim is shipped with Apple macOS.{{cite web |title=Mac OS X Manual Page For vim(1) |work=developer.apple.com |publisher=Apple Inc. |url=https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/vim.1.html |access-date=2010-01-12 |archive-date=9 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609170929/http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/vim.1.html |url-status=live }}

Independent ports of Vim are available for Android{{cite web|url=https://github.com/momodalo/vimtouch|access-date=2015-08-09|title=VimTouch, the development has stalled on this app|website=GitHub|archive-date=29 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229012338/https://github.com/momodalo/vimtouch|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://github.com/shiftrot/droidvim|access-date=2017-03-05|title=DroidVim, under active development|website=GitHub|archive-date=27 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627111225/https://github.com/shiftrot/droidvim|url-status=live}} and iOS.{{cite web|url=http://applidium.com/en/applications/vim/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120032008/http://applidium.com/en/applications/vim/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-01-20|access-date=2015-08-11|title=Vim – Applidium, mobile agency in Paris}}

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Neovim{{cite web|url=http://neovim.io/|title=Neovim: vim, out of the box|website=neovim.io|access-date=2 May 2024|archive-date=16 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516140503/https://neovim.io/|url-status=live}} is a fork of Vim that strives to improve the extensibility and maintainability of Vim.{{cite web| url = https://neovim.io/charter/| title = Neovim Vision| access-date = 18 February 2016| archive-date = 26 April 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220426002631/https://neovim.io/charter/| url-status = live}} Some features of the fork include built-in Language Server Protocol (LSP) support, support for asynchronous I/O by using the C library libuv, and for Lua scripting by using luaJIT language interpreter,{{cite web| url=https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html| title=Nvim documentation: vim_diff| access-date=2 October 2019| archive-date=25 August 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825213838/https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html| url-status=live}}{{Efn|LuaJIT is directly listed as a third-party dependency for the program build.}} allowing both plugin scripting and running scripts in headless / batch mode.{{Cite web |title=Starting - Neovim docs |url=https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html#-l |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=neovim.io}} The project is free software and its source code is available on GitHub.{{cite web|url=https://github.com/neovim/neovim|title=GitHub – neovim/neovim: Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability|website=GitHub|date=2019-08-29|access-date=18 February 2016|archive-date=10 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210002828/https://github.com/neovim/neovim|url-status=live}}

Neovim has the same configuration syntax as Vim prior to vim9script; thus the same configuration file can be used with both editors, although there are minor differences in details of options.{{cite web| url = http://arusahni.net/blog/2015/03/switching-to-neovim-part-1.html| title = Switching to NeoVim| date = 31 March 2015| access-date = 18 February 2016| archive-date = 16 February 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160216025559/http://arusahni.net/blog/2015/03/switching-to-neovim-part-1.html| url-status = live}} If the added features of Neovim are not used, Neovim is compatible with almost all of Vim's features.{{cite web| url=http://veelenga.com/editors/how-to-start-using-neovim-instead-of-vim/| title=How to start using Neovim instead of Vim| access-date=18 February 2016| archive-date=4 June 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604054638/http://veelenga.com/editors/how-to-start-using-neovim-instead-of-vim/| url-status=usurped}}

The Neovim project was started in 2014, after a patch to Vim supporting multi-threading was rejected.{{Cite web |title=Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 [LWN.net] |author=Eddie Kovsky |work=lwn.net |date=1 February 2017 |access-date=13 June 2023 |url= https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/ }} Neovim had a successful fundraising in March 2014, supporting at least one full-time developer.{{cite web| url = http://vimcasts.org/blog/2014/03/support-neovim/| title = Vimcasts.org blog post| access-date = 18 February 2016| archive-date = 17 August 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210817071909/http://vimcasts.org/blog/2014/03/support-neovim/| url-status = live}}{{Cite web|date=23 March 2014|title=Neovim|url=https://www.bountysource.com/teams/neovim/fundraiser|access-date=2021-03-20|website=Bountysource|archive-date=5 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105163307/https://www.bountysource.com/teams/neovim/fundraiser|url-status=live}}

Several frontends are under development which make use of Neovim's capabilities.{{cite web|url=https://github.com/rhysd/NyaoVim|title=NyaoVim frontend|website=GitHub|date=2019-08-29|access-date=18 February 2016|archive-date=30 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430094112/https://github.com/rhysd/NyaoVim|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://github.com/rogual/neovim-dot-app|title=Mac OS X frontend|website=GitHub|date=2019-08-29|access-date=18 February 2016|archive-date=17 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417165446/https://github.com/rogual/neovim-dot-app|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt|title=Neovim-Qt frontend|website=GitHub|date=2020-07-21|access-date=17 July 2019|archive-date=16 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916231726/https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt|url-status=live}}

With the 0.5 release of Neovim on 2 July 2021, it gained built-in support for the LSP, Tree-sitter, and more complete Lua support – including the support for configuration scripts written in Lua instead of VimL.{{cite web |title=New features in Neovim 0.5 [LWN.net] |author=Ayooluwa Isaiah |work=lwn.net |date=3 August 2021 |access-date=13 June 2023 |url= https://lwn.net/Articles/864712/ }}

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File:Neovim being used to edit its own configuration file.png|Neovim featuring configured statusbar and dark colorscheme.

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• Learning the vi and Vim Editors, a tutorial book for vi and vim, published by O'Reilly Media
• Editor war – the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (Vim) text editors
• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors
• Vimperator

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• {{YouTube|ayc_qpB-93o|TechTalk by Bram Moolenaar held on 25th Anniversary of first vim release}}

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