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Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor.
Updated 17 May 2008 06:27 UTC
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by TheAlienist
If you spend a lot of time writing and/or editing text (code, scripts, config files, etc...), then you owe it to yourself to invest in learning vim or emacs.
I chose Vim because I learned it in college. I can't honestly say it's better than emacs, but the bottom line is that any of these 2 editors can drastically improve your productivity.
Sure those flashy IDE's look impressive with the doo-hickeys all over the place. But the
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Clearly the best OpenSource editor. If people say it's too complex etc; that's partially true but it's worth learning it. Really, really powerful and you can script it in many languages including ruby and python.
Here some links if you're new to Vim or want to find out something new:
- http://lucumr.pocoo.org/articles/vim-as-development-environment
- http://amix.dk/blog/viewLabelPosts/5
programming text_editors vi editor text_editor vim text unix syntax_highlighting
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