VIM Pictures - Buttons, (Animated) Icons, and Screenshots Sven Guckes guckes@vim.org ©1995-2001
Last update: Mon Nov 19 22:15:00 MET 2001

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VIM Pictures - Buttons, (Animated) Icons, and Screenshots

This page shows buttons, icons, and some screenshots of Vim and GVim.

Feel free to add the buttons and icons to your webpages. A link to www.vim.org would be appreciated, but that is no requirement, of course.

Do you have a pictures to add to this page? Then please send it to me via email! But please take a look at the submission guideline below as it saves me quite some work - thanks! :-)

Vim Pictures - Overview

Sections on this page:

Photos | Icons and Logos | Screenshots | Links to other pictures on the net | ASCII Logos | Submission Guideline | Changes to this page

Vim - Photos

[vim wash]
Title: Vim on the beach
Size: 48658 bytes
Creator: Gregory Gaskill info(at)chronon.com
Added: 011119
Notes: on the beach outside of Bankgok. but where is the barkeeper?

Vim - Icons and Logos

powered by Vim - FREE EDITOR
"Powered by Vim - FREE EDITOR" [1,416 bytes]
Creator: Jose A. Herran kedesfase@terra.es [010830]

crée avec Vim

"crée avec Vim" [only 881 bytes!]
Creator: Eric Lebel lebelcire@hotmail.com [010302,010729]
Notes: Crafted from the icon by Marc Hughes.

Created with Vim

"Created with Vim" [3,109 bytes]
Creator: David Necas yeti@monoceros.physics.muni.cz [001215]
Notes: The XCF source is available at http://physics.muni.cz/~yeti/download/created-with-vim.xcf.bz2

created with Vim

"created with Vim" [1,914 bytes]
Creator: Philipp Neuner p9r@gmx.at [000817]

Vim Tilde Button

"Tilde Line Icon" [293 bytes]
Creator: Mark Tomko mtomko@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu [000815]
Notes: This icon is in PNG format and shows a "tilde line" with a command line ":Vi IMproved":

Created with VI

"Created with VI" [19940 bytes]
Creator: Stephen "The Saint" Zeck saintly@innocent.com [000704]

Vim Document Icon

"Vim Document Icon" [259 bytes]
Creator: Nathan Leveck n473@n473.com [000509]
Notes: This icon is also available as a Windows icon file (766 bytes).

This Site vim Powered

"This Site vim Powered" [948 bytes]
Creator: Andy Bradford bradipo@xmission.com [000503]

I love my editor

"I love my editor" [1,368 bytes]
Creator: Alexandre VIALLE alexvialle@yahoo.fr [000427]
Notes: Small, nice - *love* it! :-)

Edited with VIM

"Edited with VIM" [1,029 bytes]
Creator: Preben Randhol randhol@pvv.org 000222

Vim on Fire

"Vim on Fire" [6884 bytes]
Creator: Daniel S Gindikin gindikin@andrew.cmu.edu
Notes: HOT! :-)

VIM - the 4 star editor

"VIM - the 4 star editor" [only 972 bytes!]
Creator: Herve Foucher Herve.Foucher@helio.org [990826,990903]
Notes: Small! Just under 1K!

Vim - The editor

"Vim - The editor" [1,091]
Creator: Bram Moolenaar bram@vim.org
Notes: Logo created by the author himself! (I guess that makes it the "official" logo now. ;-)

Vim Mirror

"Vim Mirror" [2362 bytes]
Creator: Byron L. Ewers blewers@tencorp.net [990708]
Notes: Certainly a nice button for Vim Mirrors. :-)

Vim Mirror 2

"Vim Mirror" [2700 bytes]
Creator: Byron L. Ewers blewers@tencorp.net [990708]
Notes: A variant of the first button - but the green comes in vertical layers.

V on square

"V on green square" [only 687 bytes!]
Creator: Herve.Foucher@helio.org
Notes: Small. Nice.

Vim Icon (transparent)

"Vim Icon (transparent)" [only 295 bytes!]
Creator: Thomas.Hopfner@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [990203]
Notes: Small. Transparent. Vim. Good!

[This site was created with VIM! :wq]

"This site was created with VIM! :wq" [918 bytes]
Creator: Mark Hughes kamikaze@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu [981217]
Notes: "ZZ" works, too. ;-)

[Edited with Vim]

"Edited with Vim" [1199 bytes]
Creator: Marco Lamberto lm@geocities.com [981111,981117]
Notes: Red background. Nice and small.

[Just VIM it! (This page is Vim POWERED!)]

"Just VIM it! (This page is Vim POWERED!)" [6456 bytes]
Creator: Adrian Nagle vim-www@naglenet.org [981105,000524]
Notes: Nice. :-)

[Just VIM it! (click here)]

"Just VIM it! (click here)" [6737 bytes]
Creator: Adrian Nagle vim-www@naglenet.org [981104,000524]
Notes: Nice. :-)

[Vi Vimproved]

"Vi Vimproved" [2895 bytes]
Creator: Prabhanjan M prabham@prithvi.siliconsystems.co.in [981001]
Notes: Nice. :-)

[Designed with Vim]

"Designed with Vim" [1501 bytes]
Creator: (damn, I forgot) [980622]
Notes: Black button with a dark blue "vim" on the white text "designed with".

[picture: This site vim powered (411 bytes)]

"Vim Hot Icon" [299 bytes]
Creator: Vince Negri vn@aslnet.demon.co.uk [980216]

[picture: This site vim powered (411 bytes)]

"This site vim powered" [411 bytes]
Creator: Cade, Philippe phc@gmx.net [971127]

[picture: This site vim powered (546 bytes)]

"This site vim powered" [299 bytes]
Creator: Kristine Budde budde@inf.fu-berlin.de [980721]

Powered By VIM

"This site is powered by vim" [4885 bytes]
Creator: Digital Puer digital_puer@hotmail.com [970828]

VIM - Screenshots

So - here are the screenshots. They are linked one by one, so as not to take a lot of load for this page. Have fun!

Title: GVim-5.8 with Hangul and GTK
Size: 126,682 bytes
Creator: Kim YoungHwi - lachesis@kldp.org
Added: 010723
Notes:

Title: GVim-6.0aa on WindowsNT4
Size: 25931 bytes
Creator: David Pascoe David.Pascoe@jtec.com.au
Added: 010420
Notes: GVim-6.0aa on Windows-NT 4.0 with vertical split. The left windows shows the file the original version of a file (g7mibsup.orig.c) and the right windows shows the current version (g7mibsup.c) with three additional lines (colorized with a cyan background). There is also a torn off menu showing the commands "undo, paste, select word/line/all".

Title: Vim-6 C++ Jave Make Email HTML
Size: 38121 bytes
Creator: Eric Tetz erictetz@yahoo.com
Added: 010325

Title: Vim-6.0w with UTF-8 text
Size: 18058 bytes
Creator: Alexey Marinichev lyosha@math.ucr.edu
Added: 010313
Notes: Shot shows Vim-6.0w within an xterm from the XFree86-4 distribution. The text is in utf-8 mode with a font called -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1 The text was taken from the file "ucs-fonts/examples/quickbrown.txt" from the ucs-font distribution.

Title: Vim on VMS
Size: 105K and 135K
Creator: Zoltan Arpadffy arpadffy@altavista.net
Added: 010130
http://www.polarhome.com/vim/shot.html
Two screenhots of VIM-6 with vertically split windows. One shot shows the GUI version with menus and syntax coloring, the other shows the console version, again with "vertical split" but without coloring. These shots were made to show that Vim on VMS is just as nice as anywhere else. :-)

Title: Vim-5.7.2 Startup Screen
Size: 5,088 bytes
Creator: Philippe Seidel pagin@newopenness.de
Added: 001104
Notes: The pure startup screen of Vim with the intro message.

Title: Japanese MacVim
Size: 156K
Creator: Kenichi Asai asai@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Added: 000509
Notes: This screenshot shows that Vim's "multibyte support" allows to display Japanese text on your screen. See also Kenichi Asai's page on "Japanese Vim":
  • http://www-imai.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~asai/macvim/

    Title: Gvim Japanese
    Size: 30K
    Creator: Taro Muraoka koron@tka.att.ne.jp
    Added: 000116
    Notes: Japanese text in both edit buffer and menus.

    Title: When things are dim - Give them VIM
    Size: 18371 bytes
    Creator: Triantafyllidis Petros trian@lemnos.geo.auth.gr
    Added: 990816
    Notes: This picture was found in a museum in Barcelona.

    Title: Vim and SMIL
    Size: 15,390 bytes
    Creator: Herve.Foucher@helio.org
    Added: 990804
    Notes: This picture shows one of the files that are part of the tutorial on SMIL. The green right angle in line two represents the position of the cursor.

    Title: Vim with GTK theme
    Size: 136K [1038x726 !]
    Creator: Patrick Wagstrom wagspat@charlie.cns.iit.edu
    Added: 990301
    Notes: "Built right off the vim 5.4e source tree with no modifications. I just used a GTK theme and a pretty big .vimrc file to create that." Please note that the configuration dialog was taken out from Vim again. It no longer exists with the source of Vim. Sorry.

    Title: Vim with NeXT look
    Size: 25K [727x500]
    Creator: Dan Moniz dnm@cadre.org
    Added: 990220
    Notes: Vim-5.4e built with Gtk+ 1.16 and Glib 1.16 on Linux Redhat-5.1 with WindowMaker-51.0.

    Title: Vim on MacOS 8.5.1
    Size: 18,517 bytes
    Creator: W. Jeffrey Rankin jrankin@greenteainc.com
    Added: 990106

    Title: Vim in SQL QuickFix mode (1)
    Size: 58,700 bytes
    Creator: Rajesh Kallingal RajeshKallingal@email.com
    Added: 981223
    Notes: This picture shows the SQL*Plus menu which lets me run the SQL*Plus or PL/SQL script files in full or just the selected text or start SQL*Plus. Also added QuickFix mode for PL/SQL files using a perl script. This allows me to do a ':Compile' to compile PL/SQL Stored Procedures and put me in QuickFix mode to fix all the errors (if any) in the Stored Procedure. The perl script can be run from command line and it can invoke VIM (with OLE) to debug the errors.

    Title: Vim in SQL QuickFix mode (2)
    Size: 66,778 bytes
    Creator: Rajesh Kallingal RajeshKallingal@email.com
    Added: 981223
    Notes: This shows VIM with an PL/SQL error after a ':Compile'.

    Title: gvim-5.4a with GTK
    Size: 29291 bytes (721x449)
    Creator: Marcin Dalecki dalecki@cs.net.pl
    Added: 981218
    Notes: The first vim screenshot with 27 command icons. ;-)

    Title: GVim-5.3
    Size: 25330 bytes (587x546)
    Created: David Pascoe David.Pascoe@jtec.com.au
    Added: 981023
    Notes: Gvim-5.3 on WindowsNT-4.0, showing some icons for commands and an example of the new "browse" command with a dialog on the directory with Vim's syntax files. Vim shows a split screen - the upper window one shows the file "os_w32.txt" (with specific help on the Win32 binary), and the lower window shows $VIM/syntax/cpp.vim - the syntax file for C++ files (colorized by the applied vim.vim, of course).

    Title: Vim in SQL Mode
    Size: 71K
    Creator: Rajesh Kallingal Rajesh.Kallingal@cyberdude.com
    Added: 980904
    Notes: This shows the SQL*Plus menu which lets me run the SQL*Plus or PL/SQL script files in full or just the selected text or start SQL*Plus.

    Title: Vim-5 on RiscOS
    Size: 74K
    Creator: Thomas Leonard tal197@ecs.soton.ac.uk
    Added: 980726,980728
    Notes: Shows a choice of font styles and sizes. The back window is using direct-to-screen plotting via the ZapRedraw module, the other is plotting via the font manager.

    Title: Gvim and Unicode
    Size: 60K
    Creator: Sung-Hyun Nam namsh@lgic.co.kr
    Added: 980717
    Notes: Gvim-5.2g with +GUI_Athena, showing the Hangul Latex Guide with text in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, and a few Roman and Greek characters, on WindowManager "Enlightenment-14 WM", with font "-misc-gothic-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-160-ksc5601.1987-0".

    Title: VIM-5.0w on rxvt-2.4.3
    Size: 136K
    Creator: Matthew Aylward maylward@sunny.gis.uwa.edu.au
    Added: 980626
    Notes: VIM-5.0w on rxvt-2.4.3 on a "walnut" background with windowmaker-0.14.0.

    Title: VIM-5.0w on rxvt-2.4.3
    Size: 58K
    Creator: Matthew Aylward maylward@sunny.gis.uwa.edu.au
    Added: 980626
    Notes: VIM-5.0w on rxvt-2.4.3 on a background with "blue waves" with windowmaker-0.14.0.

    Title: GVim-5.1a
    Size: 15025 bytes
    Created: David Pascoe davidp@jtec.com.au
    Added: 980331
    Notes: Windows' window with vim icon and gvim-5.1a inside; ":e $VIM\syntax\tex.vim" and ":help gui-w32".

    Title: VIM-5.0l on Fortran
    Size: 11K
    Creator: Leonard Lorentzen lnl@ffa.se
    Added: 971128,980626
    Notes: VIM-5.0l +GUI_Motif +X11

    Title: VIM Life
    Size: 8K
    Created: Kent Nassen knassen@umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~knassen/
    Added: 971006
    Notes: This picture shows VIM while performing the macros for "Game of Life".

    Title: VIM-4.6 with Farsi fonts
    Size: 12K
    Creator: Mortaza G. Shiran shiran@parscom.com http://www.scn.de/~shiran/
    Added: "long ago"
    Notes: "Vim-Farsi contains a converter that converts between Standard Farsi 3324 and Vim-Farsi. So you can use it to write Farsi HTML documents for PMOSAIC browser."

    Title: Vim after startup
    Size: 10K
    Creator: Keith Manley kmanley@verinet.com
    Added: 971217
    Notes: Gvim-5.0s running under HP-UX 9.05 on a HP 715 right after startup. As no filename is given, you see the nice greeting screen that the author created to give initial help to a new user.

    Title: Vim on syntax file tex.vim
    Size: 14K
    Creator: Keith Manley kmanley@verinet.com
    Added: 971217
    Notes: Gvim-5.0s - the current buffer contains the syntax file "tex.vim" which defines the rules for coloring TEX files. The file itself is colored according to the rules given by "vim.vim".

    Title: Vim on tex.vim - with menu
    Size: 21K
    Creator: Keith Manley kmanley@verinet.com
    Added: 971217
    Notes: Gvim-5.0s on "tex.vim" again - but this time with the default tear off menus (Files) on top of the window.

    Title: VIM-? with TeX menus
    Size: 13K
    Creator: Hermann Rochholz Hermann.Rochholz@gmx.de
    Added: 970627,980703,000921
    Notes: Is the LaTeX menu available on the Web yet?

    Title: VIM-4.4 with X support
    Size: 11K
    Creator: Felix von Leitner leitner@math.fu-berlin.de
    Added: 960926
    Notes:

    Title: VIM-4.2 with X support
    Size: 20K
    Creator: Sven Guckes guckes@vim.org
    Added: 960926
    Notes: This shows VIM with three windows: The top window shows "VIM" in a four line ascii font - "[+]" indicates that the buffer was modified and "[No file]" indicates that the buffer is not associated with a filename yet. The window in the middle shows VIM'd online help text - it is opened automatically when you enter the command ":help". The window at the bottom shows a mail I was writing; the command on the command line will pass on the text to the mailer MUTT which will send send it off.

    Title: VIM on Windows (from DOS shell)
    Size: 6889 bytes
    Creator: Greg Willard willard@simon.wustl.edu http://dybfin.wustl.edu/willard/willard.html
    Added: 961016
    Notes: VIM on source code for C++ with one paragraph highlighted.

    Title: VIM-3.0 on Macintosh
    Size: 4703 bytes
    Creator: Patrick Berry pberry@node8.com
    Added: 970207
    Notes: This picture show VIM-3.0 on MacOS after the startup and a ":version".

    Title: GUI VIM on Perl script
    Size: 9784 bytes
    Creator: Lawrence Clapp larry@theclapp.org
    Added: 971104
    Notes: VIM editing on a perl script.

    Title: VIM color on Perl
    Size: 17K
    Creator: Christopher G Mann r3cgm@cdrom.com
    Added: 970905

    Links to other pictures on the net

    Vim on Olaf's Desktop [971216]
    http://www.polderland.nl/~rhialto/be/vim-5.0s-screen1.gif (71K)
    Author: Olaf Seibert rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl

    Vim on Jano's Desktop [970919,000807]
    http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jvhemert/MyDesktop.html
    Screenshot of 1997:
    http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jvhemert/home/desktop.19970226.big.jpg
    Screenshot of 1998:
    http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jvhemert/home/desktop.19981129.big.jpg
    http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jvhemert/desktopb.jpg [obsolete?]
    Author: Jan van Hemert jvhemert@wi.LeidenUniv.nl
    There's Vim on his desktop - try to spot it!

    Vim - ASCII Logos

    VIM ASCII Logo by Woody Thrower [991020,991026]: 
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    Vim - HOWTO add your pictures to this page

    Do you have a pictures to add to this page? Then please send it to me via email!

    Here are some things to take care of [I hope you'll understand]:

    Submission guidelines

    Send address or attach
    If your send a screenshot then please do not attach your picture to your email; instead, just tell me whwre I can download it. So please upload you pictures to your own website and just send me the URL (address) of the picture. That way your pictures are not within a mail in my mailbox, saving me time on download and startup of the mailer.
    If you cannot upload your pictures to a website then please attach the picture to your mail; this allows for easy extraction of the data to a file.

    Format: GIF, JPG, PNG
    Please use a format known by many browsers, so I won't have to convert them. GIF (GIF89a, interlaced), JPEG (use a suitable compression rate) and PNG are all welcome.

    Maximum Size 640x480
    Please try to take screenshots from 640x480 screens at most. I'd like to the pictures to be viewable on 14" monitors, too.
    That said, larger screenshots are welcome, too, but you'll have to keep in mind that those who will view it on a 14" monitor will have to scroll around a lot to see it all.
    Please let me know about the size of your picture; of course there are tools to find out about the size, but it would make it easier on me if you simply added this info to your mails.

    Filenames
    Please give your pictures a filename which starts with "vim", includes your last name and the title of the picture, ie in the format vim.yourname.description.gif,
    Example: vim.guckes.edit_with_vim.gif

    Screenshot Contents: Show Version Number
    Please have your vim show its version number on the screenshot. (enter command ":version" or ":intro" in a subwindow). If possible, show the coloring of some non-standard file - as there are quite a few shots of source files in C, C++, and Fortran.

    Name and Address [000818]
    I will add your name and address as given in the From: line of your email. If you want some other address to appear on this page then please let me know. But I will certainly add your real name. :-)

    THANKS! :-)

    Vim Pictures - History (List of Changes) 

    URL:         http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/pics.html
URL:         http://www.vim.org/pics.html (mirror)
Created:     Sat Jun 29 00:00:00 MET 1996

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