VIM - Mirrors [FTP Mirrors = Download Sites; WWW mirrors]

This text gives a short overview to the sites that mirror Vim.

The data is sorted by the "top level domain" (TLD), gives a nickname for each mirror (either the country name or the city), and the address of the mirror (either the direct address or a vim.org alias).

Would you like to set up your own mirror of the vim distribution (FTP) or the Vim Pages (WWW)? Then take a look at the info on the Mirror HowTo.

FTP Mirrors

FTP stands for "file transfer protocol". (But you might think of it as "filr tranfer program" if you like.) It is one of the services that the Internet gives - like Email, News, and the WWW.

You can download Vim from the main site - but the connection may be slow. Therefore Vim has be copied onto other computers to which you may have a faster connection. These computers are called "mirrors", in this case "ftp mirrors".

The FTP mirrors hold a *copy* of the main download site. and therefore should hold both the source code of Vim as well as its documentation and syntax files (aka runtime files).

NOTEs: There may be exceptions. Some mirros might not have a complete copy of everything. It's all up to the maintainers of the mirrors. If you should encounter an incomplete mirror then please contact its *maintainer*.

The following list is sorted alphabetically by the top level domain (TLD) name. The "US domains" com, gov, and net are listed at the end.

Usually, the best mirror to chose is the one in your country. And the default name for that mirror *should* be ftp.AB.vim.org where "AB" is the country's two letter iso code. Example: The mirror in Greece should be aliased as "ftp.gr.vim.org".

TLD	NICKNAME	URL

---	HOME		ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/

AU	Australia	ftp://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/
BE	Belgium		ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/vim/
CA	Canada		ftp://ftp.ca.vim.org/pub/vim/
DE	Germany:	ftp://ftp.de.vim.org/misc/editors/vim/
DE1	Berlin		ftp://ftp.berlin.de.vim.org/misc/editors/vim/
                        -> ftp1.de.vim.org [toadd]
DE2	Erlangen	ftp://ftp2.de.vim.org/ [outdated]
DE3	Munich		ftp://ftp.musin.de/pub/vim/
                        -> ftp3.de.vim.org [toadd]
DE4	Oldenburg	ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/vim/
                        -> ftp4.de.vim.org [toadd]
                        currently is ftp://ftp2.de.vim.org/ - wrong!
ES	Spain		ftp://ftp.es.vim.org/pub/vim/
FR	France		ftp://ftp.fr.vim.org/pub/vim/
FR2	France		ftp://ftp.fr2.vim.org/pub/vim/

GR	Greece		ftp://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/
HU	Hungary		ftp://ftp.hu.vim.org/pub/vim/ [000121: timeout]
IT	Italy		ftp.it.vim.org (coming up!)
JP	Japan:		ftp://ftp.jp.vim.org/pub/vim/
JP1	TWICS		ftp://ftp.tokio.jp.vim.org/pub/vim/
JP2	ISITE		ftp://ftp2.jp.vim.org/pub/vim/ defunct?
KR	Korea		ftp://ftp.kr.vim.org/pub/vim/
MX	Mexico		ftp://ftp.mx.vim.org/
NL	Netherlands	ftp://ftp.nl.vim.org/pub/vim/
NL1	Netherlands	ftp://ftp.nl.vim.org/pub/vim/
NL2	Netherlands	ftp://ftp2.nl.vim.org/pub/vim/
PL	Poland		ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/	
PT	Portugal	ftp://ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/editors/vim/	
                        -> ftp.pt.vim.org [toadd]
RU	Russia	        planned	
                        -> ftp.su.vim.org [toadd]
ZA	SouthAfrica	ftp://ftp.za.vim.org/applications/editors/vim/

USA:
USA1	CA, UCDAVIS	ftp://ftp.ca.us.vim.org/pub/vim/	
USA2	CA, cdrom.com	ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/unixfreeware/editors/vim/
			-> ftp://ftp2.ca.us.vim.org/pub/unixfreeware/editors/vim/ [toadd]
USA3	MD, NASA	ftp://ftp.nasa.us.vim.org/pub/unix/vim
                        -> ftp.md.us.vim.org [toadd]
USA4	MI, Petrified	ftp://ftp.mi.us.vim.org/mirrors/vim/	
USA5	NY, Rochester	ftp://ftp.ny.us.vim.org/editors/vim/
USA6	IL, UIUC	ftp://ftp.il.us.vim.org/packages/vim/	
USA7	WA, WallaWalla  ftp://wastenot.whitman.edu/pub/vim/
                        -> ftp.wa.us.vim.org [toadd]

WWW/Web mirrors

The list of web mirrors of the Vim Pages. Please note that the original homepage of Vim is http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/ and that http://www.vim.org/ is a *mirror*! Changes to the Vim Pages are thus immediately visible at the "math" site; they will be reflected by www.vim.org after the daily mirror.

Here are the current www mirrors of the Vim Pages:

BE	Belgium	        http://mirror.grmbl.com/vim/	
                        -> http://www.be.vim.org/ [todo]
CA	Canada		http://www.vmunix.com/vim/
			-> http://www.ca.vim.org/ [toadd]
CZ	Czech Republic	http://www.instinct.org/vim/	
DE	Germany:	
DE1	Berlin		http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/
DE3	Munich		http://www.vim.org/
ES	Spain		http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/vim/
			-> http://www.es.vim.org [toadd]
FR	France		http://web.efrei.fr/~parmelan/vim/guckes/
			-> http://www.fr.vim.org [toadd]
KR	Korea		http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/mirror/vim/
                        -> http://www.kr.vim.org [toadd]
MX	Mexico		http://www.mx.vim.org/
NO      Norway          http://alge.anart.no/vim/ 
                        -> www.no.vim.org [toadd]
Russia:
RU1	Russia		http://vim.gambit.msk.su/
                        -> http://www.su.vim.org [toadd]
RU2	Russia		http://chronos.cs.msu.su/vim/	
SK	Slovakia	http://www.kotelna.sk/vim/	
ZA	SouthAfrica	http://www.leg.uct.ac.za/mirrors/guckes/vim/
                        -> http://www.za.vim.org [toadd]

USA	CA, Davis	http://ftp.us.vim.org/vim/
USA	FL, Vero Beach	http://www.fl.us.vim.org/ [todo]
USA	FL, Vero Beach	http://www.tencorp.net/www.vim.org/
USA	MI, Kalamazoo	http://rickjames.sapien.net/vim/
                        -> http://www.mi.us.vim.org [toadd]
                       no update since 981105 :-(

The full information about all sites is on the

Vim Distribution Page

URL:         http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/mirrors.html
URL:         http://www.vim.org/mirrors.html (mirror)
Created:     Fri Jan 29 17:00:00 CET 1999

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