Cream

        An easy-to-use configuration of the Vim text editor

Cream v0.35 released!

2006 April 5

New features include:

» New Print Selection feature
» Clearer Preferences menu
» Alt+,(x2) displays insert chars
» Simpler Filetype menu
» Improved startup
» More...

Download from the
Installation page!

Cream Links
Google :: FreshMeat.net :: GnomeFiles :: VimOnline :: WikiPedia :: SourceForge

Cream v0.34 released!

2006 Feb 16

New features include:

» New char under cursor info (Alt+.)
» Simplified character insertion
» Encoding change more stable
» New Inkpot color scheme
» Syntax highlight to HTML add-on
» Improved empty line formatting
» Smoother Email Prettifier
» Korean menu translations
» File browser filter fixes
» Improved Windows INSTALL.bat
» New screenshots!
» More...

Cream v0.33.1 released!

2005 Oct 14

New features include:

» Tweaked Insert menu
» New list characters available
» New list char. value under cursor
» Improved installer
» More...

Read more News in the Release Announcement Archive or complete details in the ChangeLog.

Cream is a free, easy-to-use configuration of the powerful and famous Vim text editor for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD.

It has a simple interface but includes features like syntax highlighting, spell checking, multiple file find/replace, bookmarks, text reformatting, completion, block commenting, extensive file format and character support, line folding, and many, many more.

See Cream in action or download it from the installation page.

Why Cream?

Vim is one of the most powerful, lightweight and full-featured text editors ever created. It is the popular and famous descendant of the 1976 Vi text editor. Vim is also free and works on most operating systems.

But Vim has a steep learning curve. It was not primarily designed to be easy to use, favoring performance and technical flexibility instead. Because it is so different, learning to use Vim takes time. Cream shapes Vim to use the standard Common User Access model of user interface.

For those unfamiliar to Vim, we hope that you find Cream to be what what you would expect in a text editor. Its long list of features describe a number of default extensions available from pull-down menus and keyboard shortcuts.

For those already familiar with Vim, you will find considerable development of Vim's insert mode usability, settings retention, menu and toolbar customization. There are also many custom Vim extensions by some notable authors included and configured by default.

For those already familiar with Cream, please see how to contribute if you're interested in helping out!