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1. Introduction

Vim editor stands for 'Vi Improved'. Vi is the most popular and powerful editor in the Unix world. A good editor will improve the productivity of the programmer. Vim supports color syntax highlighting of program code and also different fonts like normal or bold.

To use Vim install the following rpm packages on linux -


        rpm -i vim*.rpm
OR do this -
        rpm -i vim-enhanced*.rpm
        rpm -i vim-X11*.rpm
        rpm -i vim-common*.rpm
        rpm -i vim-minimal*.rpm

You can see the list of files the vim rpm installs by -
 
        rpm -qa | grep ^vim | awk '{print "rpm -ql " $1 }' | /bin/sh | less

and browse output using j,k, CTRL+f, CTRL+D, CTRL+B, CTRL+U or using arrow keys, page up/down keys. See 'man less'.

For other flavors of unix download the source code file


 
        zcat vim.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
        cd vim-5.5/src
        ./configure --enable-gui=motif
        make
        make install

For Windows 95/NT, download zip file and install clicking on setup.


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