Download Vim 6.3

The development team behind Vim just released version 6.3. Vim (Vi improved) is based on Vi, a text editing program mainly known from the Unix world. The program is available for Unix, DOS, Windows, Amiga, OS/2 and MacOS, among others. The list of downloads is too long to list here, so we’ll just refer to the page with Downloads† Release 6.3 is mainly a bug fix version, but some new features have also been added:

The main new features are:

• Support for translated help files. The files themselves are available separately, see
• More conversions are possible on Macintosh and MS-Windows without help of the iconv library.
• Amiga binaries are included again. My Amiga was miraculously healed from a hard disk problem.
• The Win32 self-installing exe now also includes vim.exe, the console version. Despite that the file size is smaller than before, because of using LZMA compression.
• When formatting text, marks are kept at the same position.
• Support for the NetBeans interface on MS-Windows.
• MS-Windows: Vim can run inside an MDI window of another application (see “:help -P”). Doesn’t work for all MDI applications though.
• Mousewheel support on the Macintosh.

Once you have installed 6.3 you can find details about the changes since Vim 6.2 with “:help version-6.3”. There is a long list of fixed bugs.