Vim

Vim

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Vim	Score 9.7 out of 10	N/A	Vim is an open source configurable text editor.	N/A

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	Vim
Considered Both Products	Vim Verified User Engineer Chose Vim Notepad++, while being a great editor, is very easy to get familiar with. However, being a serious developer, having the most efficient tool is much more important than having an easy tool. Vim’s speed is very much faster than that of notepad++. Moreover, the amount of plugins … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Vim I prefer Vim simply because it's as simple as apps like Notepad, Notepad++, or gedit, but as feature rich as Microsoft Visual Studio. The startup time is quick, the response time is quick, it never freezes. Vim always "just works." Vim can be downloaded in a few seconds (if … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Vim I spent some time learning emacs at one point and found it to have a much larger surface area of required knowledge before being productive. They are similar in that the interface is somewhat "hidden" behind keybindings and commands, but Vim's modal model makes more sense to me … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Vim I think it comes down to usability (and frankly, just preference). There's an old adage that Emacs is a good Operating System with a poor Text Editor! Jokes aside, when looking at different text editors, such as Emacs or Nano, Vim is the one that is usually always preferred … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Vim It is hard to compare Vim to many other packages in the developer's stack of tools. It mainly does one thing, edit text, and does it better than anything else. For instance, you can't really compare it to Visual Studio Code because VS actually has a Vim plug-in so you can … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Garnhart Research & Development: Product Intern Chose Vim Vim is a text editor that strives for simplicity. It does that well, but when you need something at the next level, take a look at the above two. Visual Studio Code is a fantastic, free code editor that makes most of my workflow easy. Incentivized Helpful? Jake Tolbert Director of Development - Data Services Chose Vim 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Vim I use Vim for specific use cases and others for their own purposes but all of them are being used at my work every day. Vim has its pros like it's free/open source, has a mouse free interface, is lightweight and fast, and once learned is hard to forget. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Multiple files Pro Find and replace Pro Text editing
Top Cons	Minus Learning curve Minus Steep learning curve Minus Code completion

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User Ratings
	Vim
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (9 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	6.0 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Vim
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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 Incentivized Jake Tolbert Director of Development - Data Services Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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