evi

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What is EVi?

EVi is a hard fork from Vim v9.1.0 (Jan 2024) to build further upon the foundations of Vim, while avoiding AI taint.

Vim, and by extension EVi, is a greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, spell checking, filename completion, block operations, script language, etc. There is also a Graphical User Interface (GUI) available. Still, Vi compatibility is maintained, those who have Vi "in the fingers" will feel at home.

Distribution

EVi is at the time of writing only distributed from Codeberg.

Compiling

If you somehow obtained a binary distribution you don't need to compile EVi. If you obtained a source distribution, all the stuff for compiling EVi is in the src directory. See src/INSTALL for instructions.

Installation

See one of these files for system-specific instructions. Either in the READMEdir directory (in the repository) or the top directory (if you unpack an archive):

README_ami.txt		Amiga
README_unix.txt		Unix
README_dos.txt		MS-DOS and MS-Windows
README_mac.txt		Macintosh
README_haiku.txt	Haiku
README_vms.txt		VMS

There are other README_*.txt files, depending on the distribution you used.

Documentation

The tutor is a one hour training course for beginners. See :help tutor for more information.

The best is to use :help in EVi. If you don't have an executable yet, read runtime/doc/help.txt. It contains pointers to the other documentation files. The User Manual reads like a book and is recommended to learn to use EVi. See :help user-manual.

Copying

The original Vim is Charityware, and so is EVi. You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are encouraged to make a donation to help orphans in Uganda. Please read the file runtime/doc/uganda.txt for details (do :help uganda inside EVi).

Summary of the license: There are no restrictions on using or distributing an unmodified copy of EVi. Parts of EVi may also be distributed, but the license text must always be included. For modified versions, a few restrictions apply. The license is GPL compatible, you may compile EVi with GPL libraries and distribute it.

Sponsoring

There is no framework for sponsoring at the time of writing.

Contributing

If you would like to help make EVi better, see the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Main author

Most of the original Vim was created by Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Bram-Moolenaar

This is README.md for version 10.0 of EVi.