VIM 7 Released

Posted by Michael Larabel on May 08, 2006

VIM, one of the popular Linux editors, has reached version 7. Packed in VIM 7 after years of development are a great deal of new features. Some of the new features include spell checking support, intelligent completion for C - HTML - Ruby - Python - PHP, etc..., tab pages, highlighting of cursor line, internal grep, searches compressed files, and browsing remote directories are among the features. More is at VIM.

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