Vim (text editor)

Website: vim.org

Vim ( a contraction of Vi IMproved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program.

It is an improved clone of Bill Joy’s vi.

Vim’s author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga and released a version to the public in 1991.

Vim is designed for use both from a command-line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface.Since its release for the Amiga, cross-platform development has made it available on many other systems.

In 2018, it was voted the most popular editor amongst Linux Journal readers; in 2015 the Stack Overflow developer survey found it to be the third most popular text editor, and in 2019 the fifth most popular development environment.