Vim is a great text editor for linux. The shorthands makes it extremely useful to navigates, search, edit, copy, replace, paste, etc. Unlike a normal editor, we get to focus more time on the content rather than editing the code.

Highlights the codes in colors. Makes it convince to see

Flexible, extendible and ubiquitous in Linux. Vim has all the bells and whistles of other IDE's and can be configured to be a truly powerful code editor. Once tweaked to your preferences it is a joy to work with and because it's available on most Linux systems it helps do know how to use the tool effectively.