EditPlus vs. Vim

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
EditPlus
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
EditPlus is a text editor for windows featuring customizable syntax highlighting, code foldin, hex viewer, and other features, from EditPlus (ES-Software) in the UK.N/A
Vim
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Vim is an open source configurable text editor.N/A
Pricing
EditPlusVim
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EditPlusVim
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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EditPlusVim
Small Businesses
BBEdit
BBEdit
Score 8.2 out of 10
BBEdit
BBEdit
Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Vim
Vim
Score 9.7 out of 10
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Vim
Vim
Score 9.7 out of 10
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
EditPlusVim
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(3 ratings)
10.0
(9 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
EditPlusVim
Likelihood to Recommend
EditPlus (ES-Software)
Edit+ is well suited for basic tasks like using it as a to-do list or writing basic scripts or using it for simple programs that aren't too long or complex.
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Open Source
I would recommend Vim in any scenario where text files have to be viewed, created, or edited on GNU/Linux computers. Regardless if you need to quickly change a few things in a configuration file, or you need to write up a full document, Vim is great. I wouldn't use Vim to view, edit, or create anything that requires "rich-text". In other words, if you need to format the text (bolding, font colours, word-art, etc), then Vim isn't the tool to use.
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Pros
EditPlus (ES-Software)
  • Decent overall text editor for any programming language you want to use.
  • Can customize your layout/color scheme to fit your needs.
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Open Source
  • The efficient modal editing makes it very fast to write/edit code as I think of it.
  • The customization and wide range of plugins let me do very specific things and automate parts of my workflow.
  • The fact that it runs inside a terminal simplifies my window management and just becomes another Tmux window in my workflow.
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Cons
EditPlus (ES-Software)
  • Keep it simple, fast and easy
  • Change without need is wasteful
  • It's already perfect, sheesh...
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Open Source
  • Without a doubt the hardest program to learn. It is a completely different paradigm of thinking compared to other editors
  • By default it doesn't have lots of fancy features you would find in larger IDE programs like code completion and linking
  • It lives in the command line so a user has to be comfortable with this interface
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Usability
EditPlus (ES-Software)
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Open Source
I don't consider the steep learning curve to be a hinderance on the overall usability. I would rate this a ten, but to be honest a lot of people do get hung up at the beginning and just abandon it. However, for people who have made the moderate effort to get over the hump, nothing can be more usable.
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Support Rating
EditPlus (ES-Software)
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Open Source
There is no commercial support for Vim. Thus, it will not get a mark beyond 5. However, community support is very good. You can easily find solutions for most of the problems in the community.
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Alternatives Considered
EditPlus (ES-Software)
Not well supported, lacks functionality other editors have.
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Open Source
Vim's keybindings are a lot more complex than Notepad++. With that, comes a whole bunch of capability that Notepad++ just can't match. Emacs is comparable, in terms of capabilities--because Vim is built into so many unix systems, I chose to learn it instead of Emacs. Knowing both probably isn't a bad idea, but there's enough to learn in either camp to keep you busy
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Return on Investment
EditPlus (ES-Software)
  • I have not been involved in that aspect. I am just a user.
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Open Source
  • It always increases productivity.
  • Sometimes feature discovery is not easy. It could be documented well like how to install a plugin and if it supported well or not.
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