Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

Editor Comparison Summary

Most of the clones support most or all of the features described earlier in this chapter. Table 8-9 summarizes what each editor supports. Of course, the table does not tell the full story; the details are provided in the rest of the book.

Table 8-9. Feature summary chart

Feature	nvi	elvis	vim	vile
Multiwindow editing	•	•	•	•
GUI		•	•	•
Extended regular expressions	•	•	•	•
Enhanced tags		•	•	•
Tag stacks	•	•	•	•
Arbitrary length lines	•	•	•	•
8-bit data	•	•	•	•
Infinite undo	•	•	•	•
Incremental searching	•	•	•	•
Left-right scrolling	•	•	•	•
Mode indicators	•	•	•	•
Visual mode		•	•	•
Edit-compile speedup		•	•	•
Syntax highlighting		•	•	•
Multiple OS support		•	•	•