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# VIM/Feature list

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The main features of VIM and improvements of VIM over vi:

- VIM is 99% Vi compatible
- portability
  - Unix, Linux
  - MS-DOS, MS-Windows? 95/98/ME/NT/2000, IBM OS/2
  - IBM OS/390, DEC/Digital?/Compaq? VMS
  - BeOS?, Macintosh, Risc OS
  - Amiga?, Atari? MiNT?
- multi level undo/redo
- multiple modified buffers
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) mode
- split windows both horizontal and vertical
- syntax highlighting for hundreds of file types
- trans-session history of commands/searches/registers/positions ...
- command-line editing and extensive completion
- IDE like build/review/edit features
- session state preservation
- configurable status line
- insert-mode completion
- multi-mode text folding
- extended scripting and expressions
- scripted plugins including remote file editing
- visual mode selection with char/line/block ranges
- comprehensive integrated help system with hypertext via ctags
- The ability to impress windows users with how l33t j00 4r3
- and many many more

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