History
vile has been under continuous development since 1990. Some highlights:
- 1990 port to MS-DOS
- 1991 first posting to alt.sources ("version three")
- 1991 xvile, an X11 client
- 1992 Step through C-preprocessor #if/.../#endif statements.
- 1993 port to OpenVMS
- 1994
- using autoconf to port to Unix platforms
- port to Microsoft Windows console
- port to OS/2
- 1995
- C syntax highlighting using video attributes attached to buffer
- 1996
- convert to ANSI C
- 1997 Perl interface
- 1998
- winvile, a Windows GUI client
- majormodes combine buffer attributes based on file type
- 1999
- port to BeOS
- combine majormodes and syntax highlighting for more than 30 languages
- relicense as GPLv2
- 2000 Syntax filters can be built-in or external
- 2001
- port to QNX
- Error-stepping generalized.
- 2002 Character-classes in regular expressions
- 2003 Minibuffer (prompt-line) generalized as one-line editor
- 2004 Locale support
- 2005 Syntax filters can be dynamically loaded
- 2006 Multiple scripts can be invoked via the command-line options
- 2007 Basic Unicode support.
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