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vi (pronounced as distinct letters, / ˌ v iː ˈ aɪ / ⓘ) [1] is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by (and thus standardized by) the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.
Vim (/ v ɪ m / ⓘ; [5] vi improved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program. It is an improved clone of Bill Joy's vi.Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga [6] and released a version to the public in 1991.
A small vi clone with a minimum of commands and features. GPL-2.0-only: Elvis: The first vi clone and the default vi in Minix. ClArtistic: ex: Or is vi an ex-clone? ex was an extended version of ed. It got a full-screen visual interface, thereby becoming the vi text editor. Free software: Kakoune
Results of the Sucks-Rules-O-Meter for Vi and Emacs from comments made on the Web; In the Church of Emacs "using a free version of vi is not a sin, it's a penance." Emacs offers Vi functionality, from the Emacs wiki; Emacs Vs Vi, from WikiWikiWeb; The Right Size for an Editor discussing vi and Emacs in relatively modern terms
nvi is only available on POSIX/Unix platforms due to its reliance on the curses/ncurses library. [5] An unmaintained, multilingual version by the late Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino is available as nvi-m17n. [6] [7] A currently-maintained, multibyte version is available as nvi2, and is the default vi on DragonFly BSD. [8]
The second Berkeley Software Distribution (2BSD), released in May 1979, [9] included updated versions of the 1BSD software as well as two new programs by Joy that persist on Unix systems to this day: the vi text editor (a visual version of ex) and the C shell. Some 75 copies of 2BSD were sent out by Bill Joy. [7]
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Elvis was the pioneering vi clone, widely admired in the 1990s for its conciseness, and many features. [2] [3] It influenced the development of Vim until about 1997.[4] [5]It was the first to provide color syntax highlighting (and to generalize syntax highlighting to multiple file types), first to provide highlighted selections via keyboard.