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[http://www.vim.org/ '''Vim'''] is an open-source (licensed under its own "charityware" license), modal text editor written in C and its own Vim script language. It is one of the most popular text editors for Linux, and has been ported to every major operating system. Being a modal text editor it is designed to be a more efficient text editor, allowing users to do everything without ever leaving the home row (on their keyboard). It has both a graphical version (or gVim) and a command-line version. It is in the official repositories of Fedora. | [http://www.vim.org/ '''Vim'''] is an open-source (licensed under its own "charityware" license), modal text editor written in C and its own Vim script (or VimL) language. It is one of the most popular text editors for Linux, and has been ported to every major operating system, including: AmigaOS, Linux, macOS, Windows NT and the BSDs. Being a modal text editor it is designed to be a more efficient text editor, allowing users to do everything without ever leaving the home row (on their keyboard). It has both a graphical version (or gVim) and a command-line version. It is in the official repositories of Fedora. | ||
On Fedora, Vim (specifically the subpackage <code>vim-minimal</code>) is also used to provide <code>/bin/vi</code>. | |||
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sudo dnf install vim | sudo dnf install vim | ||
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== Features == | |||
On Fedora Vim comes with out-of-the-box syntax-highlighting (or colouring) support for most (if not every) popular computer language. It even has syntax-highlighting support for RPM spec files (which are used for building RPM packages). | |||
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Revision as of 20:43, 6 January 2017
Vim is an open-source (licensed under its own "charityware" license), modal text editor written in C and its own Vim script (or VimL) language. It is one of the most popular text editors for Linux, and has been ported to every major operating system, including: AmigaOS, Linux, macOS, Windows NT and the BSDs. Being a modal text editor it is designed to be a more efficient text editor, allowing users to do everything without ever leaving the home row (on their keyboard). It has both a graphical version (or gVim) and a command-line version. It is in the official repositories of Fedora.
On Fedora, Vim (specifically the subpackage vim-minimal) is also used to provide /bin/vi.
Installation
To install Vim via DNF merely run:
sudo dnf install vim
Features
On Fedora Vim comes with out-of-the-box syntax-highlighting (or colouring) support for most (if not every) popular computer language. It even has syntax-highlighting support for RPM spec files (which are used for building RPM packages).