![]() (Put your mouse away you won’t have one at a server text console.) In its simplest form, VIM is a keyboard-based, character-based editor.It will not edit word-processing documents such as MSWord or OpenOffice or printer-ready documents such as PDF files. VI/VIM is a pure (plain) text editor – just text, no fonts, no formatting.The VI/VIM editor is notoriously hard to learn, but once learned, is very easy to use.Even your home router may have a version installed (e.g. DDWRT, OpenWRT). VI/VIM is the Universal Unix/Linux/BSD/OSX text editor – every Unix and Unix-like system has it.I never hated any editor as much as I hated vi, and now I’ve stuck with it for 17 years because I can no longer imagine a better editor. So I stuck with it, and eventually found out that once you know what you’re doing, it’s an incredibly fast editor. It took about a month before I could do anything with any proficiency in vi and I still didn’t love it, but by then I’d realized that there was an insanely powerful editor hiding behind this bizarre facade.
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