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Title: 7 reasons to love Vim Date: 2016-08-10 15:29:33 Categories: [editors] tags: [vi, vim] Slug: 7-reasons-to-love-vim Author: sedlav
Description: "Giles Orr tell us why we should love Vim Editor.> When I started using the vi text editor, I hated it. I thought it was the most painful and counter"
Giles Orr tell us why we should love Vim Editor.
When I started using the vi text editor, I hated it. I thought it was the most painful and counter-intuitive editor ever designed. But I'd decided I had to learn the thing, because if you're using Unix, vi was everywhere and was the only editor you were guaranteed to have access to
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very e efficient. Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Among its features are:
- persistent, multi-level undo tree
- extensive plugin system
- support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats
- powerful search and replace
- integrates with many tools