Negri Win32 GUI and generic console enhancements
Steve Oualline Author of the first Vim book |frombook|
Dominique Pelle Valgrind reports and many fixes
A.Politz Many bug reports and some fixes
George V. Reilly Win32 port, Win32 GUI start-off
Stephen Riehm bug collector
Stefan Roemer various patches and help to users
Ralf Schandl IBM OS/390 port
Olaf Seibert DICE and BeBox version, regexp improvements
Mortaza Shiran Farsi patches
Peter da Silva termlib
Paul Slootman OS/2 port
Henry Spencer regular expressions
Dany St-Amant Macintosh port
Tim Thompson Stevie
G. R. (Fred) Walter Stevie
Sven Verdoolaege Perl interface
Robert Webb Command-line completion, GUI versions, and
lots of patches
Ingo Wilken Tcl interface
Mike Williams PostScript printing
Juergen Weigert Lattice version, AUX improvements, Unix and
MS-DOS ports, autoconf
Stefan 'Sec' Zehl Maintainer of vim.org
Yasuhiro Matsumoto many MS-Windows improvements
Ken Takata fixes and features
Kazunobu Kuriyama GTK 3
Christian Brabandt many fixes, features, user support, etc.
Yegappan Lakshmanan many quickfix features
I wish to thank all the people that sent me bug reports and suggestions. The
list is too long to mention them all here. Vim would not be the same without
the ideas from all these people: They keep Vim alive!
*love* *peace* *friendship* *gross-national-happiness*
Documentation may refer to other versions of Vi:
*Vi* *vi*
Vi "the original". Without further remarks this is the version
of Vi that appeared in Sun OS 4.x. ":version" returns
"Version 3.7, 6/7/85". Source code only available with a license.
*Nvi*
Nvi The "New" Vi. The version of Vi that comes with BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD.
Very good compatibility with the original Vi, with a few extensions.
The version used is 1.79. ":version" returns "Version 1.79
(10/23/96)". Source code is freely available.
*Elvis*
Elvis Another Vi clone, made by Steve Kirkendall. Very compact but isn't
as flexible as Vim. Source code is freely available.
Vim Nvim is based on Vim. https://www.vim.org/
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Neovim fundraiser backers *backers.txt*
Thank you to everyone who backed the original Neovim Fundraiser.
LIST OF BACKERS
- [Bob Breznak](http://brez.io)
- [Tim Uruski](http://timuruski.net)
- @mikker (http://brnbw.com)
- Aaron J. [@metaxis](http://twitter.com/metaxis) Peterson
- Adam George http://www.adamgeorge.com
- Adam Lindberg (http://alind.io)
- Adam McLain http://twitter.com/adammclain
- Adam Piper http://ahri.net
- Adrian Philipp http://adrian-philipp.com
- Alexander Quine
- Alexandru Dabija
- Alexis Hildebrandt http://surryhill.net
- Andrew M. Farrell http://amfarrell.com
- Anton Beloglazov http://beloglazov.info/
- Arthur Axel fREW Schmidt - https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com
- Ben Thouret http://benjamin.thouret.com
- Benedikt Böhm http://bb.xnull.de
- bfredl, http://bfredl.github.io
- Brandon Smith, http://reardencode.com
- Brandon Wang, http://brandonwang.me
- Brennen Bearnes http://p1k3.com
- Brock Wilcox (awwaiid) http://thelackthereof.org/
- Cameron Eagans http://cweagans.net
- Carl Myers http://cmyers.org/
- Carlos Alves http://www.carlosalves.info
- Chris Chernesky,