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What do you like best about Vim?

Vim is one of the common text editors for Linux distros, it is not so popular but it does the work, If you have worked with vim before then it will be very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

VIM is very complicated to use it is a programmer's worst nightmare, The most difficult issue while using vim is to exit vim although it is a very easy command every time I have to exit vim I have to try the command 3-4 times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vim isn't solving any of my particular problems but it is easy to use after you get the hang of it and it helps in editing text files very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Vim?

Vim is a configurable text editor built to help manage efficient text editing with vi editor and UNIX System that can be used on-premise or online.

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Vim is a configurable text editor built to help manage efficient text editing with vi editor and UNIX System that can be used on-premise or online.


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3.0 out of 5
"Vim: Old but gold"
The same with neovim, I really like the extensible scripting language and the large ecosystem that can be used / repurposed for your needs. It's...
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Pratik S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One of the best text editor"
The funcutionality offered by like searching, replacing particular strings and many more.
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4.5 out of 5
"Screen-based Text Editor Program - Vim"
Vim is a free and open source text editor. It allows us to make changes to the any kind of text in a very efficient way. It is commonly used in UNI...
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KL
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What do you like best about Vim?

The same with neovim, I really like the extensible scripting language and the large ecosystem that can be used / repurposed for your needs.

It's not the easiest editor to pick up and use. But it's the editor that often encourages workflow and productivity to happen when you're writing code on a daily basis. The features at your disposable are second to none and, while always imitated, very few editors can match it's prowess of the king.

These are just the few features I'm leveraging to make myself productive:

- various modes: visual / execute / normal

- text motions

- keybindings

- buffers

- plugins

- registers

- number increments

- search / replace

- marks

- macros

- vim script

- plugin

Never mind that I haven't even fully utilize the following:

- sessions

- folds

- netrw (windows)

- splits

- tabs

- global buffer search / replace

- tags

- remote edit

- ... etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

Vim's development, while ground breaking at the time, has grown stagnant. The custom scripting language should have been offloaded to a more well thoughtout language such as lua (though lua has it's own problems) so the editor can concentrate on pushing the editor to the next level (I can't even imaginedwhat awesomeness that would be). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can edit to my heards content without slowing down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Vim?

The funcutionality offered by like searching, replacing particular strings and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

Vim is not available by default in many light weight linux distributions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its modal editing lends itself to lightning fast text entry, and there is a nearly infinite potential growth curve for how its various commands and shortcuts can be efficiently brought to bear in navigating and moving text around.

Through the years, various extension technologies have been added to Vi (a-la Vim) that enable it to be extended in various ways, but in my personal hard wrought experience, there are limits as to how far you can push that extension before the both the editing paradigm and the mechanics begin to creak and groan under the weight of what you're trying to accomplish.

For instance, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was trying to get IDE like method and member auto-completion and refactoring into the editor. There are various solutions for this in Vim, but they either just plain didn't work, or if they did de-stabilized my Vim installation because they required the installation of C shared libraries that were a pain to build and install. There's nothing quite like having your editor dump core in the middle of a critical editing session to make you reconsider your choice of tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Vim?

I have been using Vim as my editor of choice for the better part of 25 years now. It has many very useful features and is, once you know how to use it, a convenient tool for basic editing. Since it's available out-of-the-box on most Unix and Linux-based systems (including MacOS) it provides much-needed consistency when working on multiple systems, and allows me to do basic and advanced editing everywhere.

Its powerful editing commands include regular-expression-based search-and-replace, quick undo and redo commands, copy/cut/paste commands, and many others. I also love the ability to configure defaults in a .vimrc file so I can save my preferences between sessions, and automatic syntax highlighting is also a personal favorite.

But, without question, the best feature of Vim is its ability to handle ridiculously large files without problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

Ok, yes, it's very complicated to learn. You have to understand how that editor functions and change the state of mind that you have in simpler, more modern, visual editors. The help system is not very helpful, and you can find yourself sometimes googling 'how to remove line numbers in Vim' because you simply cannot remember if it's :set numbers or :set linenumbers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using Vim to edit all types on files on console based systems, that much is obvious. But it is also very useful for opening, editing, and searching very large files on my desktop. It has a very powerful search and replace engine that is both simple and limitless (again, once you learn how to use it). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vijay P.
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What do you like best about Vim?

Vim is a free and open source text editor. It allows us to make changes to the any kind of text in a very efficient way. It is commonly used in UNIX systems and in Apple OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

Vim is time consuming when compared to other text editor like Sublime, Notepad++. It has many shortcuts key associated with keyboard difficult to remember them all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

While working with server in case if we need to make any changes to existing file or do we have to make any changes to an existing file in that case it is really beneficial for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Vim?

Working with Vim makes you an excellent developer, as it is widely used in most of the organizations to work on servers. It is very efficient with very limited resource utilization and high performance and provides you the functionality to automate. In the long run, everyone finds it very helpful for their productivity. It is especially useful for people working on servers through CLI and who need to use it frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

For new users, working with Vim is a complex task with learning curve and especially with multiple commands to remember, and in terms of customization, it is not that suitable compared to other alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Change configurations and properties of remote servers

- very fast and efficient in terms of resource utilization

- Its customization and consistency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anirudh S.
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What do you like best about Vim?

This one is the best code editor in linux bases hosting server. It has syntax highligthing which is easier to use compared to Nano. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

It's just a terminal based (CLI) code editor but overall good for web servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Just fixing a minor (generally syntax errors) lines of bug using SSH over a Web Server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ARYAN S.
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What do you like best about Vim?

The thing I like the most about Vim is the long list of text manipulation options, which do have a learning curve but are of great help once you get the hang of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

Vim is a complex tool by today's standards that prefer a WYSIWYG approach to text editing, Vim has a steep learning curve that may see people quit learning how to use it in the initial stage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vim is a readily available text editing and document creation tool that works quite well with bash scripting in operating systems like Linux. Once we get past the learning curve Vim can surely make the document creating and editing process much faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patrick A.
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What do you like best about Vim?

It is simple and easy to use. Works well over ssh. We can almost entirely avoid using the mouse if we do not want to use the mouse often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

It would be nice if plugins were simpler to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vim is my primary code/document editor, so I use it a *lot* every day. I can work fast since I like to use my keyboard more and mouse less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajan G.
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What do you like best about Vim?

It can be used as a gui tool as well as a command line tool, it help me to configure or edit anything on my remote servers to edit the configuration it is a really useful text editor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

The gui feels a little out dated, as compared to others like the vs code or sublime merge, which comes with bunch of tools that are helpful like selecting simmilar occurence etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use vim to edit the configuration or make changes to my remote server properties, it runs on the command line and is very light and fast, making it much easier to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Vim?

I started using vim from my training in Linux from there I have never looked back it has the best features of all time all keyboard commands to do anything if you become a power user in vim I don't think you guys are going to get anything more good than this the way i can easily cut a line using dd or remove a character with x or save with :wq is better than using those useless nano shortcuts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

it actually has so many commands there should be good documentation from the company about all the features of vim and many of its most used features should be documented instead of someone just giving us a paid course for it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

helping me save time by giving us the best inline editor to easily edit some files instead of using our vscode or some other heavy editor or IDE and the most useful feature that I always use is "dd" which just deletes a line or to more exactly cuts the line and we can paste it using "p" I also use it remove the lines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.