Vim

E308599

clone of vi free and open-source software modal text editor text editor

Vim is a highly configurable, keyboard-driven text editor renowned for its efficiency, modal editing, and extensive plugin ecosystem, widely used by programmers and power users.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Vim canonical	10
Vim script	1
gvim	1
vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2889594 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Vim
Context triple: [Evil mode, inspiredBy, Vim]

A. Neovim
Neovim is a modern, extensible, and highly configurable fork of the Vim text editor, designed to improve usability, maintainability, and plugin integration for developers.
B. Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a popular, lightweight, cross-platform source-code editor from Microsoft that supports extensive extensions and debugging features for many programming languages.
C. Pluma text editor
Pluma text editor is a lightweight, user-friendly text editor commonly used in Linux environments as part of the MATE desktop ecosystem.
D. Bravo text editor
Bravo text editor was an early WYSIWYG word processing program developed at Xerox PARC that pioneered many modern graphical text-editing concepts.
E. Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Vim
Target entity description: Vim is a highly configurable, keyboard-driven text editor renowned for its efficiency, modal editing, and extensive plugin ecosystem, widely used by programmers and power users.

A. Neovim
Neovim is a modern, extensible, and highly configurable fork of the Vim text editor, designed to improve usability, maintainability, and plugin integration for developers.
B. Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a popular, lightweight, cross-platform source-code editor from Microsoft that supports extensive extensions and debugging features for many programming languages.
C. Pluma text editor
Pluma text editor is a lightweight, user-friendly text editor commonly used in Linux environments as part of the MATE desktop ecosystem.
D. Bravo text editor
Bravo text editor was an early WYSIWYG word processing program developed at Xerox PARC that pioneered many modern graphical text-editing concepts.
E. Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (87)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	clone of vi ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ modal text editor ⓘ text editor ⓘ
basedOn	vi ⓘ
configurationFile	.vimrc ⓘ _vimrc ⓘ
defaultFileExtensionForScripts	.vim ⓘ
designGoal	efficiency ⓘ extensibility ⓘ keyboard-driven editing ⓘ portability ⓘ
developer	Bram Moolenaar ⓘ
encouragesDonationsTo	children in Uganda (via ICCF Holland) ⓘ
genre	programmer's text editor ⓘ
GUIVariant	MacVim ⓘ surface form: gvim
hasCommunityResource	Vim documentation ⓘ Vim mailing lists ⓘ Vim plugin repositories ⓘ vim-help system ⓘ
hasDistribution	Cream (Vim distribution) ⓘ MacVim ⓘ Vim self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: gvim
hasFeature	autocommands ⓘ command history ⓘ command-line mode ⓘ diff mode ⓘ ex mode ⓘ extensive configuration via vimrc ⓘ filetype detection ⓘ insert mode ⓘ key mapping customization ⓘ marks ⓘ modal editing ⓘ normal mode ⓘ omni completion ⓘ persistent undo ⓘ registers ⓘ search and replace ⓘ spell checking ⓘ split windows ⓘ tag navigation ⓘ visual mode ⓘ
hasMotto	Vim is charityware ⓘ
includedIn	many Unix-like distributions by default ⓘ
initialReleaseDate	1991 ⓘ
inspired	many other modal editors ⓘ
license	Vim license ⓘ charityware ⓘ
notableFork	Neovim ⓘ
operatingSystem	AmigaOS ⓘ BSD ⓘ Linux ⓘ Windows ⓘ surface form: Microsoft Windows Unix-like systems ⓘ macOS ⓘ
originalAuthor	Bram Moolenaar ⓘ
programmingLanguage	C ⓘ
supports	Unicode ⓘ clipboard integration ⓘ code folding ⓘ macros ⓘ mouse interaction ⓘ multiple buffers ⓘ multiple windows ⓘ plugins ⓘ recording and replaying commands ⓘ regular expressions ⓘ remote editing via netrw ⓘ scripting ⓘ syntax highlighting ⓘ tabs ⓘ
supportsPluginManager	Pathogen ⓘ Vundle ⓘ dein.vim ⓘ vim-plug ⓘ
supportsScriptingLanguage	Lua (via interface) ⓘ Perl ⓘ surface form: Perl (via interface) Python (via interface) ⓘ Ruby (via interface) ⓘ Vim script ⓘ
targetUserGroup	power users ⓘ programmers ⓘ system administrators ⓘ
userInterface	command-line interface ⓘ graphical user interface ⓘ
website	https://www.vim.org/ ⓘ

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Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Evil mode → inspiredBy → Vim ⓘ

Spacemacs → hasEditingStyle → Vim ⓘ

Doom Emacs → inspiredBy → Vim ⓘ

Neovim → basedOn → Vim ⓘ

Neovim → supportsScriptingLanguage → Vim ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vim script

OmniSharp → integratesWith → Vim ⓘ

OmniSharp → supportsEditor → Vim ⓘ

Language Server Protocol → usedBy → Vim ⓘ

clangd → compatibleWith → Vim ⓘ

Arnold Robbins → notableWork → Vim ⓘ

this entity surface form: vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference

Emacs family of editors → competesWith → Vim ⓘ

Vim → hasDistribution → Vim self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: gvim

vi text editor → influenced → Vim ⓘ

subject surface form: vi

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