Damn faster, much handier and super powerful! This is the main reason pop out of my head first, let's break it down into smaller ones below. First, less arm movement. So no more arm movement when we need to switch from the alpha keys to navigation keys (up down, home end ..) and modification keys (delete, backspace, insert ..), all can be done with your hands stick to the main section of the keyboard. We don't even need the mouse to scroll up/down, click, and navigate around. IMHO, tiny movements like that will slow you down a lot in your everyday typing life. Handy key-strokes, and code-aid features, very friendly to coder. I was familiar with Eclipse and a few other code editors with very useful shortcut keys, and I can say, with a big help from various useful plugins, there's really nothing other editors have but vim doesn't, but NOT vice versa. Plugins, a ton of it. A cool page to find one is http://vimawesome.com (we also have color theme there), or a classic one at http://www.vim.org/scripts . To be honest, there's a few plugins I find essential (such as NERDTree, Vundle ..) and actually keep thinking they are parts of vim itself. Plugins give vim value-added features, and some can be found in no other editor/ide. (Finally, as it's too long already) Customizable, and pimp it your self. It's much like Arch Linux, comes initially with just the powerful core working instance, and everything else should be installed, customized based on your own need. So it may not always the best choice for no-i-dont-like-tweaking-anything guys.

- Free, Open source and best vi editor for Linux. - Vim is popular among developers. We can built add-ons or plugins using vim to control many other software and programming tool. - Vim is completely based on keyboard commands where each one is distinguished by using keys like alternate, command or control. - Special feature of vim includes completion, comparison, merging of files, also extended to regular expressions, support of plugins. - If we keep on practicing with the shortcuts of vim editor, we will become a true programmer. - It is readily available on all platforms (LINUX, Debian, BSD, Windows). - Vim is popularly known as developers shortcut.

Not needing to switch between keyboard and mouse