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A vi clone which is nicely integrated with Windows. Created by James Iuliano and owned now by Software Online, Lemmy is a US$20 shareware editor.
http://www.softwareonline.org/products.html

Perhaps the most popular vi clone. First reference point for VIM information: versions, documentation, and development.
http://www.vim.org

Nicely formatted for printing single page quick reference sheet for common vi commands.
http://dcfonline.sfu.ca/ying/linux/vi/

Like some of the world's best software, vim has its own development community.
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/development.html

Nvi
The Berkeley Vi (NVI) editor Home Page.
http://www.bostic.com/vi/

Brief description of advantages of using VIM text editor. Included are links to other reference pages, latest syntax files I maintain for VIM, and VIM tips and tricks.
http://www.naglenet.org/vim/

Information, tips, and tricks for learning and using vi.
http://roxanne.roxanne.org/~eric/vi_editor/

Mostly links plus brief info. Good overview covering: history, versions of vi, manuals, FAQs and other sites of interest.
http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html

A page of vi advocacy, links to other vi sites and an HTML version of Maarten Litmaath's very complete vi reference.
http://www.splange.freeserve.co.uk/misc/vi.html

Logo to use on web sites that are written and maintained with Vi.
http://www.darryl.com/vi.shtml

Contains C and VimL code which helps editing with the ViM editor, including hints generation, text alignment, color schemes, network read/write, and spell checking.
http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim

Basic equivalent emacs editor commands and operations for users of the vi editor.
http://grok2.tripod.com

Syntax files and Vim tool for Internet Explorer.
http://www.mggen.com/vim

An excellent paper written by the author of vi, Bill Joy
http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/12.vi/paper.html

A good vi tutorial and user guide aimed at engineering students.
http://ECN.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Documents/VI/

Vim on OpenVMS - executables for Alpha and VAX environment.
http://www.polarfox.com/vim/

A getting started guide for vi users.
http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html

Vim syntax files for Itanium (IA-64) processor assemblers.
http://www.geocities.com/pmalwankar/vim.htm

Lots of vim macros
http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvanr/vim.html

The homepage of a popular vi clone available on many operating systems.
http://elvis.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/

Free Notepad replacement highly compatible with the Vi editor issued under the GPL license.
http://www.winvi.de/en/

VIm-reference formatted to be put onto a T-Shirt.
http://www.open-sorcerer.de/t-ref

It contains short recipes for doing many simple and not so simple things in Vim. You should already know the basics of Vim, although each command is explained in detail.
http://www.oualline.com/vim-cook.html

Environment for editing LaTeX in Vim. Huge set of menus and shortcuts. Improved syntax, compiler and ftplugin files.Recognition of usepackage commands.
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net

A list of the most often used keys and commands in Vim. The cheat sheet covers tasks such as inserting and deleting text, searching and replacing, and editing blocks of text.
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html

Vim scripts and tips.
http://www.geocities.com/ncr_10/vim.html

TVO turns Vim into a full-featured text outliner. It has a menu, key mappings and a toolbar that mimic Microsoft Word's outline support. Included are scripts that produce HTML, Perl POD, and RTF.
http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=517

Advanced tutorial for the vi/ex editor written by Walter A. Zintz first published in Unix World magazine.
http://www.nwc.com/unixworld/tutorial/009/009.html

An expanded version of Maarten Litmaath's vi Reference. More ex commands and more examples.
http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/vi.html

If Vim is your main text editor, and if you do a lot of XML editing, then this mini howto might help you to make that even more fun.
http://www.pinkjuice.com/howto/vimxml/

Cream is an easy-to-use configuration of the powerful, free, and famous Vim text editor for both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux.
http://cream.sourceforge.net

Interesting tips about Vi on the web [in Czech]
http://ll.cz/software/editory/vi/

Guide for Vim available in PDF format.
http://www.risner.org/vim/

This site provides intellisense (Code Insight, Autocompletion) features for Vim.
http://insenvim.freeservers.com

The original vi source code, with a few necessary modernizations.
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/