Vim Is Very customisable & Extensible, it let you type partial names of files, commands, help entries, etc. and searches for them incrementally, on-the-fly. You don't have to type the names entirely from the beginning, it works on telnet and SSH connections, it can be very easily installed on a remote server and can be easily accessed on the client system, this makes it the best text editor in small capacity machines such as raspberry pi etc, especially when the gui required is minimal. Vim's configuration is portable which means we can copy the entire configuration of one system to another the entire configuration is portable. Vim is a good documentation of the code. Scripting, file merge, and a GUI shell are some the best appreciated features, because of the modality the most common commands do not need to be "decorate" with Ctrl- or alt- keys. All of the major navigation and editing functions require only 2 or 3 keys, without the bizarre finger-straining exercises required by EMACS or prowling through menus. Vim for Windows maps most of the standard keys as well, so page up and page down work as expected and if you want them to do something else, you can edit the keybindings file. If you edit a lot of batch files, PERL scripts, if you regularly move between Windows and *nix environments Vim extremely powerful.

Vi and Vim exists on most of the Unix and Linux platforms. Thus it acts as a universal editor for Linux machines. Moreover it is much faster when compared to any other editors. And it has a pretty active community and the most powerful part is that Vim is scriptable. So one can do great activities using it.

Vim is based on vi for Unix. Vim is free and open source software with both command line interface and stand-alone GUI. Vim is based on commands to text user interface. Vim is also highly customizable with many available plugins. It has the syntax highlighting feature. Also, good support from open source community. It can be used only through keyboard binding.