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''The VI family is a popular member of the TextEditorFamilies, especially on UNIX and Linux machines. Editors in this family are all [[Modal]].'' ---- === Vi Editor Family: === ---- * '''[[About Vi]] ''' * '''[http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vi/ The vi editor FAQ]''' * [http://oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/chapter/ch08.html Vi clones] -''A partial comparison page from O'Reilly's'' Learning Vi * [[vi/vim Cheat Sheets]] - Quick references to vi/Vim commands * [http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html An Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text Editor ] * [http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/12.vi/paper.html An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi] * [http://thomer.com/vi/vi.html The Vi Lover's Home Page] * [http://www.guckes.net/vi/war.php3 Vi Pages - the Holy War of Editors] * '''[[VI]]''' - ''The original Unix screen editor by Bill Joy'' * [[em]] - Derivative of [[ed]] for screen editing, and ancestor of vi '''vi clones:''' * [[AmigaVIM]] - A port of VIM 5.0 to the amiga * [[bvi]] - A binary editor that follows the ViFamily KeyboardLayout convention. * [[calvin]] - A limited vi for DOS. (No R replace, and limited to 640KB memory.) * [[Cream]] - Vim repackaged to be CUA compliant * [[Elvis]] - Began on the Atari 520 ST computer. * [[jsvi]] - Open source web-based editor in JavaScript, modeled on vi * [[Lemmy]] - A windows version with syntax highlighting. * [[levee]] - A tiny vi clone for Linux * [[MacVim]] - Open source port of the Vim editor to the Macintosh * [[nvi]] - new vi. Free BSD-Unixes (FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD) use this as vi. * [[OpenWatcom Vi]] - A Vi-like editor included with the OpenWatcom C++/F77 development environment. * [[PVIC]] - A portable Vi clone based on [[Stevie]] * [[Stevie]] - Small vi clone originally written for the Atari ST and ported to other platforms * [[svicc]] - An nvi clone for Commodore C64 * [[tvx]] - Open source editor emulating vi - predecessor of Vide * [[VI65]] - Open source vi implementation for devices using the 6502 processor (Commodore, Atari 8bit, Apple II) * [[VI Distributed]] - Open source distributed ncurses based editor * [[Vigor]] - "Clippy" plugin for vi under Linux and BSD * [[vile]] - VI and Emacs combination. Implemented using MicroEmacs * [[VIM]] - A great (and portable) VI implementation. Clearly the best version available today. It is based on [[Stevie]]. * [[VimCE]] - A port of Vim to the PocketPC * [[VimOutliner]] - An outlining editor based on [[VIM]] * [[VIrus]] - Open source minimalist vi implementation taken from Busybox * [[vis]] - Open source Vim-like text editor * [[WinVI]] - Freeware Windows GUI vi clone * [[xvi]] - A portable multi-file text editor based on vi '''vi implementations that run inside other applications:''' * The ''AbiWord'' word processor lets you switch to vi keybindings by editing a configuration file. * bash, gdb, mysql-client, and many other applications use the GNU Readline library to interact with the user. Readline includes a vi mode. * In Bourne-style shells like ''ksh'' and ''zsh'', type ''set -o vi'' to enable vi-like command-line editing. * The ''[[Crisp]]'' text editor includes vi emulation. * For ''Eclipse'', use [[vrapper]], [[viPlugin]], [[viclipse]], or [[eclipseviplugin]]. Or use [[vimplugin]] or [[Eclim]] to run an instance of Vim inside Eclipse. Also see the "For programming" line elsewhere on this page. * The ''[[Editra]]'' text editor has a Vim emulation mode. * For ''Emacs'': For Vim emulation, use [[evil-mode]] (recommended; it's the successor to Vimpulse) or [[mlessvim]]. Or, for vi emulation, use [[VIPER]], [[modal-mode]], [[evi.el]], M-x vip-mode, or M-x vi-mode. * For ''Firefox'', use [[jV]], vi Textbox Editor, or Textarea viEditor to get vi-like editing in textareas. Or use It's All Text!, Editus Externus, or [[EmbeddedEditor]] to use an external editor to edit textareas. To use vi-like keybindings for Web browsing, use the [[Pentadactyl]] extension or its ancestor, [[Vimperator]]. When Pentadactyl or Vimperator is installed, use CTRL+I to launch gVim to edit the current text field. * For ''gedit'', use [[ViGedit]] for vi emulation. * For the ''Google Chrome'' web browser, there exist at several different software packages to get vi-like keybindings. Visit https://chrome.google.com/extensions/search?q=vim -- and also try a Web search for [http://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+vi+%7C+vim ​ chrome vi | vim ] -- to find them all. * For the ''IntelliJ IDEA'' Java IDE, use [[IdeaVIM]] for Vim emulation. * For the ''IRSSI'' IRC chat client, use the vim_mode script for Vim emulation. * For the ''JED'' text editor, visit the Jed Modes website for a vi emulation mode. * For ''jEdit'', use [[Vimposter]] for vim emulation. * For the ''JBuilder'' Java IDE, use [[jVi]], which is a port of a large portion of Vim, or [[VIEX]]. * The ''[[Kate]]'' text editor includes a vi mode. * The ''[[Komodo]]'' multi-language IDE and Komodo Edit (the freeware version) include vi emulation. * For ''MS Outlook'', use [[ViEmu]] for Vim emulation, or use [[CubicleVim]] to let you use Vim as an external editor. * For ''MS SQL Server'', use [[ViEmu]] for Vim emulation. * For ''MS Visual Studio'', use [[ViEmu]] or [[VsVim]] for Vim emulation. * Instead of ''MS Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe)'', use Clink and [https://github.com/mridgers/clink/issues/235 its vi mode]. * For ''MS Word'', use [[viWord]] (experimental) for vi emulation or [[ViEmu]] for Vim emulation. * For the ''NetBeans'' Java IDE, use [[jVi]], which is a port of a large portion of Vim. * For ''Opera'', use [[vimperopera]] to get vi-like keybindings for Web browsing. * In ''PowerShell'', use PSReadLine's ViMode support. You'll need at least PowerShell 5.1. This is a free download for Windows 7 and 8. If you're on Windows 10, you should have it already. * The ''[[Qt Creator]]'' multi-language IDE includes a Vim mode. * The ''[[SlickEdit]]'' multi-language IDE includes Vim emulation. * The ''[[SVI]]'' text editor for the Squeak Smalltalk-based environment includes Vim emulation. * The ''[[vifm]]'' file manager includes vi-like keybindings. * The ''[[VIDE]]'' C/C++/Java IDE includes vi emulation. * For ''TextMate'', use [[ViMate]] for vi emulation. * For the ''Thunderbird'' email and news client, use the [[Muttator]] extension to get vi-like keybindings. * If you want a ''web browser'' designed from the ground up to support Vi keybindings, you have at least half a dozen browsers to choose from. Do a Web search for [http://www.google.com/search?q=vi+%7C+vim+web+browser ​ vi | vim web browser ]. They seem to generally be based on the WebKit layout engine. * The ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zathura_(document_viewer) Zathura]'' document viewer lets you view PDF files, PostScript files, and certain other files. It uses Vim-like keybindings by default. '''What if I use a Qt or KDE application which is not in the above list?''' File a feature request and ask the maintainers of your favorite Qt or KDE applications to add [https://github.com/hluk/FakeVim FakeVim] support. '''What if I also use another custom application which is not in the above list?''' Install [https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere vim-anywhere] then press the vim-anywhere hotkey. This will launch Vim. Type some text. Tell Vim to save and quit. Your typed text will automatically be copied to the clipboard, ready to be pasted into your custom application. vim-anywhere works in Mac OS and Linux, but not in Windows. '''What if I use Windows?''' Then you may want to [http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Set_Vim_as_the_default_editor_for_unknown_file_types_in_Windows set Vim as the default editor for unknown file types in Windows]. '''What if I want to run one command in order to make the vi keybindings work in all applications, system-wide?''' Well, you can't. The closest thing you can do is to install [https://github.com/benjaminoakes/homesick-vi-everywhere homesick-vi-everywhere]. This works in Bash and many other command-line tools, on all platforms. It probably even works in Cygwin on Windows. '''Using other applications inside Vim:''' * For email, use [[notmuch.vim]], an email client that runs inside Vim. * For programming, use [[Eclim]] to let Vim access Eclipse features. '''Misc.:''' * [[Yzis]] is a Vim clone based around a C++ library which can be embedded into other software. Yzis ships with Qt and ncurses frontends. '''vi utilities and macros:''' * [[evi]] - Macro definitions to make VI emulate emacs * [[e for vi]] - Command line preprocessor to get you into vi with ease * [[vi-hanoi]] - vi macros to solve the Tower of Hanoi puzzle * [[vi-maze]] - vi macros to solve mazes generated by Unix maze * [[Vigor]] - Vi plugin inspired by the User Friendly comic strip '''non-vi modal editors''' * [[ve]] - Freeware Modal editor by Rico Tudor. Inspired by vi, but comepletely different. Included with BeOS.
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