Vim is a virtually compatible, extreamly enhanced, version of the UNIX text editor vi. There are a lot of enhancements above Vi: multi level undo, multi-windows and buffers, syntax highlighting, command line editing, filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc.. Many features above standard vi's have been added: multiple windows and buffers, multi level undo, command line history, filename completion, selection highlighting, block operations (including column/rectangular blocks), syntax highlighting, on-line help, etc. Embeded Perl, Tcl, and Python support. See ":help vi_diff" for a summary of the differences between Vim and Vi. An X-windows aware or a full X-windows GUI version can also be built that allows full use of the mouse and pull-down menus See http://www.vim.org/why.html for a full explanation of Vim's features. Portability to all UNIX platforms, AmigaOS, Archimedes, Atari MiNT, BeOS, M$-DOS, MacOS, OS/2, VMS, WinNT+Win95. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)