Credits

Most of Vim was written by Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> Bram-Moolenaar.

Parts of the documentation come from several Vi manuals, written by: W.N. Joy Alan P.W. Hewett Mark Horton

The Vim editor is based on Stevie and includes (ideas from) other software, worked on by the people mentioned here. Other people helped by sending me patches, suggestions and giving feedback about what is good and bad in Vim.

Vim would never have become what it is now, without the help of these people!

Ron Aaron Win32 GUI changes Mohsin Ahmed encryption Zoltan Arpadffy work on VMS port Tony Andrews Stevie Gert van Antwerpen changes for DJGPP on MS-DOS Berkeley DB(3) ideas for swap file implementation Keith Bostic Nvi Walter Briscoe Makefile updates, various patches Ralf Brown SPAWNO library for MS-DOS Robert Colon many useful remarks Marcin Dalecki GTK+ GUI port, toolbar icons, gettext() Kayhan Demirel sent me news in Uganda Chris & John Downey xvi (ideas for multi-windows version) Henk Elbers first VMS port Daniel Elstner GTK+ 2 port Eric Fischer Mac port, 'cindent', and other improvements Benji Fisher Answering lots of user questions Bill Foster Athena GUI port (later removed) Google Let Bram work on Vim one day a week Loic Grenie xvim (ideas for multi windows version) Sven Guckes Vim promoter and previous WWW page maintainer Darren Hiebert Exuberant ctags Jason Hildebrand GTK+ 2 port Bruce Hunsaker improvements for VMS port Andy Kahn Cscope support, GTK+ GUI port Oezguer Kesim Maintainer of Vim Mailing Lists Axel Kielhorn work on the Macintosh port Steve Kirkendall Elvis Roger Knobbe original port to Windows NT Sergey Laskavy Vim's help from Moscow Felix von Leitner Previous maintainer of Vim Mailing Lists David Leonard Port of Python extensions to Unix Avner Lottem Edit in right-to-left windows Flemming Madsen X11 client-server, various features and patches Tony Mechelynck answers many user questions Paul Moore Python interface extensions, many patches Katsuhito Nagano Work on multibyte versions Sung-Hyun Nam Work on multibyte versions Vince Negri Win32 GUI and generic console enhancements Steve Oualline Author of the first Vim book frombook Dominique Pelle Valgrind reports and many fixes A.Politz Many bug reports and some fixes George V. Reilly Win32 port, Win32 GUI start-off Stephen Riehm bug collector Stefan Roemer various patches and help to users Ralf Schandl IBM OS/390 port Olaf Seibert DICE and BeBox version, regexp improvements Mortaza Shiran Farsi patches Peter da Silva termlib Paul Slootman OS/2 port Henry Spencer regular expressions Dany St-Amant Macintosh port Tim Thompson Stevie G. R. (Fred) Walter Stevie Sven Verdoolaege Perl interface Robert Webb Command-line completion, GUI versions, and lots of patches Ingo Wilken Tcl interface Mike Williams PostScript printing Juergen Weigert Lattice version, AUX improvements, Unix and MS-DOS ports, autoconf Stefan 'Sec' Zehl Maintainer of vim.org Yasuhiro Matsumoto many MS-Windows improvements Ken Takata fixes and features Kazunobu Kuriyama GTK 3 Christian Brabandt many fixes, features, user support, etc. Yegappan Lakshmanan many quickfix features

I wish to thank all the people that sent me bug reports and suggestions. The list is too long to mention them all here. Vim would not be the same without the ideas from all these people: They keep Vim alive! love peace friendship gross-national-happiness

Documentation may refer to other versions of Vi: Vi vi Vi "the original". Without further remarks this is the version of Vi that appeared in Sun OS 4.x. ":version" returns "Version 3.7, 6/7/85". Source code only available with a license. Nvi
Nvi The "New" Vi. The version of Vi that comes with BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD. Very good compatibility with the original Vi, with a few extensions. The version used is 1.79. ":version" returns "Version 1.79 (10/23/96)". Source code is freely available. Elvis
Elvis Another Vi clone, made by Steve Kirkendall. Very compact but isn't as flexible as Vim. Source code is freely available.

Vim Nvim is based on Vim. https://www.vim.org/

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