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Vim ( ; short for vi improved) is a free and open-source text editor. Vim provides both a terminal screen user interface as well as a graphical user interface (called gvim). Vim's documentation describes it as an improved form of the older vi text editor (though it is built from a distinct…

Key facts

First appeared: 1991
Category: technology
Problem solved: Vim was created to provide a full-featured, 'vi'-compatible text editor on the Amiga, enhancing 'vi's capabilities with multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, a visual mode, and greater extensibility, while maintaining its efficiency for keyboard-centric text manipulation.
Platforms: macos, ios, Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, etc.), linux, unix, android, web, Windows, Amiga, windows

Related technologies

PowerShell
compilers (GCC, Clang)
terminal emulators
debuggers (GDB)
Bash
various programming languages (Python, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, Ruby, Go)
Git
Tmux
screen
Zsh

Notable users

DevOps engineers
Academic researchers
System administrators
Individual developers