2014-02-28 01:30:02 +00:00
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Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.
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It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
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2014-02-28 01:30:02 +00:00
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Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that
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many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is
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perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing
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configuration files.
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2000-07-31 19:28:41 +00:00
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2014-02-28 01:30:02 +00:00
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Despite what the above comic suggests, Vim can be configured to work in a very
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simple (Notepad-like) way, called evim or Easy Vim.
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2000-07-31 19:28:41 +00:00
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WWW: http://www.vim.org/
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