Mastering the versatile text editor Vim

Abundance of choice has plagued just about every application category in the open source arena, including text editors. Apart from applications, users also get the choice of interfaces: graphical or command line. The latter option includes joe, nano, Emacs and the ever popular vim.

Vim, a contraction of Vi IMproved, was first released in November 1991 as a clone of the original vi text editor, with many additional features thrown in. Over the past 27 years, vim has continued to increase its user base and has been at the heart of one of the most hotly debated issues: that of its standing against Emacs, another fiercely popular and featureful editor.

Most modern desktop out of the box, or carry it in their software repositories. You can install it by running sudo apt install vim or sudo dnf install vim , depending on your distro.