The latest version of Vim can be downloaded from Softpedia

Aug 12, 2013 17:01 GMT  ·  By

Vim 7.4, an advanced text editor that aims to provide the power of the Unix editor 'Vi', but with more features and option, has been released and it's now available for download.

Vim is a powerful tool that has been designed with only one goal in mind, to provide efficient text editing. It can be used as "programmer's editor," but it can do other more simple tasks.

“Finally, after more than a thousand patches, there is a new version of Vim. This is mostly a bug-fix release. Also, many runtime files have been improved, syntax highlighting and indenting works better. To find out the details, do ‘:help version7.4’ after installing it,” reads the official announcement.

Major changes in Vim 7.4 include the introduction of a new, faster regular expression engine, and a huge number of fixes and improvements.

Users have been advised to update from previous versions to the latest one. Download Vim 7.4 right now from Softpedia.