• Syntax Highlighting for ActionScript, bash, C, C++, CSS, ERB, Erlang, Go, HTML, Java, Javascript, LaTeX, Lua, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and XML • Collaboration over the Internet or the local network • Read-only mode for network documents • Public and private network documents • Regular expression search and replace • Extensive support for converting and reading text-encodings • Bracket matching • Autocomplete on demand • Word counter, invisible characters and many more

* Customization - Part of Vim's power is that it can be extensively customized. * Interface - Vim's interface is not based on menus or icons but on commands given in a text user interface; its GUI mode, gVim, adds menus and toolbars for commonly used commands but the full functionality is still expressed through its command line mode. * persistent, multi-level undo tree * extensive plugin system * support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats * powerful search and replace * integrates with many tools