Vim stands for Vi IMproved. Most of Vim was made by Bram Moolenaar, but only through the help of many others.
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User Manual
Vim user manual table of contents
Vim
Vim is a terminal text editor. It is an extended version of vi with additional features, including syntax highlighting, a comprehensive help system, native scripting (Vim script), a visual mode for text selection, comparison of files (vimdiff(1)), and tools with restricted capabilities such as rview(1) and rvim(1).