Vim
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Developer: Bram Moolenaar
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Categories
IDEs & Editors
Description
A highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.
Review
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.
Efficiency
It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is operated mostly via keyboard shortcuts, making it blazing fast for power users.
Configuration Example
Example of a basic .vimrc configuration:
" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax on
" Show line numbers
set number
" Use spaces instead of tabs
set expandtab
set shiftwidth=4
Reviewed by Tesey
Written by
Tesey
Full-stack .NET developer | JS\TS & React frontend | RazorConsole collaborator
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Pros & Cons
Pros of Vim
- Fast startup
- Low memory usage
- Rich plugin ecosystem
- Free / open source
