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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