A text editor allows you to work with unformatted, plain text like configuration files, program source code, or Markdown. But nano and vim are more specific than that: they are command-line text ...

Rarely on these pages have I read such a fluff piece! Al Williams’ coverage of Emacs versus Vim was an affront to the type of in-depth coverage our Hackaday readers deserve. While attempting … ...

Code Editor Wars Redux: Vim, Emacs Fire Salvoes. By David Ramel; September 19, 2016; Old-school flame wars about the best bare-bones text editor for software development may be revived as new editions ...

Vim has been my editor of choice since 1998, about a year after I started using Linux as my main desktop operating system. I’ve used it to write several thousand articles and many, many lines of ...

If you are using multiple boards or using it headless, Vim is the most convenient code editor to use. It’s not user-friendly and works differently from the other code editors.

The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl. Bram Moolenaar, the developer behind Vim ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

A bug impacting editors Vim and Neovim could allow a trojan code to escape sandbox mitigations. A high-severity bug impacting two popular command-line text editing applications, Vim and Neovim ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.