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EVi
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What is EVi?
EVi is an advanced modal text editor designed for programmers and system administrators. It is a hard fork from Vim v9.1.0 (Jan 2024), created to build further upon the foundations of Vim while avoiding the use of AI entirely.
EVi and older versions of Vim are greatly improved versions 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.
Acknowledgements
Most of the original Vim was created by Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Bram-Moolenaar