Understanding Vim. Vim, short for Vi IMproved, traces its roots back to the venerable Vi editor, a staple in the Unix ecosystem. Renowned for its modal editing paradigm, Vim offers a unique approach ...

If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux … ...

Most Linux users know vim as a text editor that descended from vi. It can also function as a tool for encrypting text files. In this post, we examine how this is done and how to reverse the process.

So, what’s VI editor? VI is a text editor that’s screen-oriented and the most popular in the Linux world. The reasons for its popularity are 1) availability for almost all Linux distros, 2) VI works ...

Today, most of us use graphical text editors, but many developers still use vi, or its modern clone Vim, or Emacs, and they're as passionate about their choice of editors as ever. I'm not sure why ...

The first “trick” involves how you exit vi or vim and the difference that can make. Using instead of :wq when saving files with vi or vim The vi and vim editors are the most commonly used text ...