ViFamily

Vi Editor Family:

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• -A partial comparison page from O'Reilly's Learning Vi

• - The original Unix screen editor by Bill Joy

• - Derivative of for screen editing, and ancestor of vi

vi clones:

• - A port of VIM 5.0 to the amiga
• - A binary editor that follows the convention.
• - A limited vi for DOS. (No R replace, and limited to 640KB memory.)
• - Vim repackaged to be CUA compliant
• - Began on the Atari 520 ST computer.
• - Open source web-based editor in , modeled on vi
• - A windows version with syntax highlighting.
• - A tiny vi clone for Linux
• - Open source port of the Vim editor to the Macintosh
• new vi. Free BSD-Unixes (FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD) use this as vi.
• - A Vi-like editor included with the C++/F77 development environment.
• - A portable Vi clone based on
• - Small vi clone originally written for the Atari ST and ported to other platforms
• - An nvi clone for Commodore C64
• - Open source editor emulating vi - predecessor of Vide
• - Open source distributed ncurses based editor
• - "Clippy" plugin for vi under Linux and BSD
• - VI and Emacs combination. Implemented using
• - A great (and portable) VI implementation. Clearly the best version available today. It is based on .
• - A port of Vim to the
• - An outlining editor based on
• - Freeware Windows GUI vi clone
• - A portable multi-file text editor based on vi

vi implementations that run inside other applications:

• The tet editor includes vi emulation.
• For Eclipse, use , , viclipse, or . Or use vimplugin to run an instance of Vim inside Eclipse.
• For Emacs, use Vimpulse, mlessvim, or vim-mode for Vim emulation. Or use VIPER, modal-mode, , M-x vip-mode, or M-x vi-mode for vi emulation.
• 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 extension. When Vimperator is installed, use CTRL+I to launch gVim to edit the current text field.
• For gedit, use ViGedit for vi emulation.
• For the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, use IdeaVIM 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 , which is a port of a large portion of Vim, or VIEX.
• The multi-language IDE and Komodo Edit (the freeware version) include vi emulation.
• For MS Outlook, use for Vim emulation.
• For MS SQL Server, use for Vim emulation.
• For MS Visual Studio, use for Vim emulation.
• For MS Word, use (experimental) for vi emulation or for Vim emulation.
• For the Java IDE, use , which is a port of a large portion of Vim.
• For Opera, use vimperopera to get vi-like keybindings for Web browsing.
• The multi-language IDE includes Vim emulation.
• The SVI text editor for the Squeak Smalltalk-based environment includes Vim emulation.
• The C/C++/Java IDE includes vi emulation.
• For , use for vi emulation.
• The editor includes vi emulation.

vi utilities and macros:

• - Macro definitions to make VI emulate emacs
• - Command line preprocessor to get you into vi with ease
• - vi macros to solve the Tower of Hanoi puzzle
• - vi macros to solve mazes generated by Unix maze
• - 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 keybindings. Included with BeOS.