ViFamily
HomePage | RecentChanges | EditorIndex | TextEditorFamilies | PreferencesThe 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
- [The vi editor FAQ]
- [Vi clones] -A partial comparison page from O'Reilly's Learning Vi
- [vi/vim keyboard layout]
- [An Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text Editor ]
- [An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi]
- [The Vi Lover's Home Page]
- [Vi Pages - the Holy War of Editors]
- VI - The original Unix screen editor by Bill Joy
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
- 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
- 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, use Vimpulse?, mlessvim?, or vim-mode? for Vim emulation. Or use VIPER?, modal-mode?, evi.el, 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 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 [ chrome vim ] -- to find them all.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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?.