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This page will help you decide what to download. Most popular: MS-Windows: Recent and signed MS-Windows files are available on the vim-win32-installer site. The current stable version is gvim_9.1.0000_x64.exe (64bit installer) and gvim_9.1.0000_x86.exe (32bit installer).
Vim online is a central place for the Vim community to store useful Vim tips and tools. Vim has a scripting language that allows for plugin like extensions to enable IDE behavior, syntax highlighting, colorization as well as other advanced features.
The main new feature of Vim 8.2 is support for popup windows. These can be used to display text on top of other windows and are very flexible: they can be positioned relative to text, at an absolute position or just in the middle of the screen. The size can be fixed or can adjust to fit the text.
Vim's online documentation system, accessible via the :help command, is an extensive cross-referenced and hyperlinked reference. It's kept up-to-date with the software and can answer almost any question about Vim's functionality.
You can obtain Vim for the first time with: git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git. And, if you don't have local changes, update to the latest version with: cd vim. git pull. If you made some changes, e.g. to a makefile, you can keep them and merge with the latest version with: cd vim. git stash. git pull.
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor. Users of Vim 5 and 6 should consider upgrading to Vim 7.
Update runtime files. When you obtain the latest version of Vim and apply all the patches, you still don't have the latest version of the runtime files (syntax highlighting, indenting, filetype plugins, etc.). That is because no patches are made for them. The recommended way is to use the git repository at github.
Vim 8.1 is available! Vim 8.1 is a minor release, a few new features have been added since Vim 8.0. A lot of bugs have been fixed, documentation was updated, etc. For MS-Windows, download the Self installing executable. Otherwise see the Download page for options.
Vim works well at a console, but it can run natively in many GUIs, including X Windows, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows. It uses native GUI widgets for scrolling, dividing buffers, and menuing. It can also talk to the clipboard.
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple's macOS. Much of Vim was written by Bram Moolenaar (Bram@Vim.org).