Vim

윈도우용 vim 이다.

Unix의 vi는 강력한 편집툴임에는 틀림없으나 명령어가 다소 복잡해서

사용하지 않으면 금방 잊어버린다.

평소 PC에서 사용하면 잊어먹을일도 없겠지.

게다가 구문강조기능도 있어서 소스파일 보는데도 불편하지 않다.

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PC: MS-DOS and MS-Windows

Since there are so many different versions of MS operating systems, there are several versions of Vim for them.
For Vim 5.x, Vim 6.x and Vim 7 look in the pc directory.

Self-installing executable   gvim##.exe    gvim71.exe

For Vim 6 and later. This includes a GUI version of Vim - with many features and OLE support - and all the runtime files. It works well on MS-Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. Use this if you have enough disk space and memory. It's the simplest way to start using Vim on the PC. The installer allows you to skip the parts you don't want.
For Vim 6.3 and later it also includes a console version, both for MS-Windows 95/98/ME and MS-Windows NT/2000/XP. The installer automatically selects the right one.
NOTE: Sophos Antivirus 3.58 detects the virus Troj/Momma-B in gvim61.exe, but this is a false alarm.
For the latest version with all patches included see Cream below. These versions are unofficial, but the download number is high and complaints are few.

Runtime files   vim##rt.zip    vim71rt.zip

For all the following binary versions you need this runtime archive, which includes the documentation, syntax files, etc. Always get this, unless you use the self-installing executable.

There are three versions that run as an MS-Windows application. These provide menus, scrollbars and a toolbar.

GUI executable   gvim##.zip    gvim71.zip

This is the "normal" GUI version.

OLE GUI executable   gvim##ole.zip    gvim71ole.zip

A GUI version with OLE support. This offers a few extra features, such as integration with Visual Developer Studio. But it uses quite a bit more memory.

Win32s GUI executable   gvim##_s.zip    gvim71_s.zip

GUI version for Windows 3.1 with win32s support. (Not available for Vim 6.2 and 6.3)
A true Windows 3.1 version can be found here: http://www.bulbous.freeserve.co.uk/vim16.html

There are three versions that run on MS-DOS or in a console window in MS-Windows:

16 bit DOS executable   vim##d16.zip    vim71d16.zip

The 16 bit DOS version is the only one that runs on old MS-DOS systems. Only use this if you are really desparate, because it excludes many useful features (such as syntax highlighting and long file names) and quickly runs out of memory.

32 bit DOS executable   vim##d32.zip    vim71d32.zip

The 32 bit DOS version works well on MS-Windows 95/98/ME. It requires a DPMI manager, which needs to be installed on MS-DOS. MS-Windows already has one. It supports long file names, but NOT on MS-Windows NT/2000/XP. It is compiled with "big" features.

Win32 console executable   vim##w32.zip    vim71w32.zip

The Win32 console version works well on MS-Windows NT/2000/XP. It supports long file names and is compiled with "big" features. It does not run perfectly well on MS-Windows 95/98/ME, especially when resizing the console window (this may crash MS-Windows...).

There are a few extra files:

iconv library   libiconv

A library used for converting character sets. Put "iconv.dll" in the same directory as gvim.exe to be able to edit files in many encodings. You can find the dll file in the bin directory of the "libiconv-win32" archive.

newer intl library   libintl

The included libintl.dll does not support encoding conversion. If you have installed the iconv library, as mentioned above, you can install a gettext library that uses it. Get "intl.dll" from the bin directory in the gettext-win32 archive and store it as "libintl.dll" in the same directory as gvim.exe, overwriting the file that may already be there.

PC sources   vim##src.zip    vim71src.zip

The source files, packed for the PC. This only includes the files needed on the PC, not for other systems. The files are in dos format CR-LF.

PC debug files   gvim##.pdb    gvim71.pdb   gvim##ole.pdb    gvim71ole.pdb   vim##w32.pdb    vim71w32.pdb

When you notice a bug or a crash in Vim these files can be used to help tracing down the problem. In Vim 7 do ":help debug-win32" to see how.

PC translations   vim##lang.zip    vim71lang.zip

Translated messages and menu files, packed for the PC. Use this to see non-English menus. The messages are only translated when the libintl.dll library is installed.

Windows 3.1 GUI executable   gvim##w16.zip and gvim##m16.zip

These are GUI versions for 16 bit windows (Windows 3.1). The "w16" has many features, "m16" has few features (for when you're short on memory).

The files ending in ".zip" can be unpacked with any unzip program. Make sure you unpack them all in the same directory!

Alternate distributions

For an unofficial version that does include all the latest patches and optionally a bit more: Cream. The "one-click installer" mentioned includes the Cream changes. For the "real Vim" use the "without Cream" version listed further down.

You may also try Yongwei's build, executables with slightly different interfaces supported.

For a Cygwin binary look at others.

Win64 binaries for x64 and ia64 can be found at http://georgevreilly.com/vim/