Vile (editor) - Features and Improvements Over VI

Features and Improvements Over vi

  • Multi-window/multi-buffer editing
  • Multi-level undo/redo
  • Multi-platform with native features rather than in a Unix-compatible environment
  • Reads a buffer from standard input or from piped external commands
  • Error-expression parsing jumps to the line producing compile-errors, grep matches, etc.
  • Dynamic window updates
  • Scripting language
  • Many mode settings, globally, per-buffer, per-window
  • Color-syntax highlighting for each majormode (88 as of version 9.7).
  • Command-completion
  • Selection-highlighting using keyboard or mouse.
  • Complex fence feature enables the user to step through if/then/else statements
  • Extended regular expressions using both POSIX and Perl features.

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