Vim

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 Vim (Vi IMproved) is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy's vi text editor program for Unix.

 Author:    Bram Moolenaar
 Homepage:  https://www.vim.org/
 Download:  https://www.vim.org/download.php
 Family:    ViFamily
 Platform:  Windows, Linux, Mac
 License:   Charityware

Features: Some of Vim's enhancements include

completion, comparison and merging of files (known as vimdiff),
a comprehensive integrated help system,
extended regular expressions,
scripting languages (both native and through alternative scripting interpreters such as Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, etc.)
including support for plugins,
a graphical user interface (known as gvim),
limited integrated development environment-like features,
mouse interaction (both with and without the GUI),
folding,
editing of compressed or archived files in gzip, bzip2, zip, and tar format
and files over network protocols such as SSH, FTP, and HTTP, session state preservation,
spell checking, split (horizontal and vertical) and tabbed windows,
Unicode and other multi-language support,
syntax highlighting,
trans-session command,
search and cursor position histories,
multiple level and branching undo/redo history which can persist across editing sessions,
and visual mode.

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