Vim Usability, Reviews & Ratings 2022

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Lighting fast editor with a steep learning curve

10 out of 10

April 27, 2020

VIM is used as an editor all over the whole organization, mostly used as a convenient editor in remote Linux servers. Usually, a full …

VIM is the ultimate text editor!

10 out of 10

January 23, 2020

Vim is something that many of our programmers and network engineers use to edit text files. Some of us are using it because it's the …

Worth the learning curve

9 out of 10

November 12, 2019

Many developers at my company use Vim as their main text editor. Besides the individual benefits of working alone with Vim, the fact that …

The only text editor you'll ever need!

9 out of 10

October 12, 2019

Vim is used as the default text editor for our Linux-based servers (Vi alias' to Vim as well). It is used only within the I.T. department, …

Vim - Thinking With Text

8 out of 10

August 23, 2019

Vim is my dream editor if I could ever get in touch with it fully. Most of the other developers and analysts here don't touch it as it has …

Vim: Good for quick edits, not great for other things.

6 out of 10

June 21, 2019

Vim, from what I can tell, is used by most developers. That said, Vim is almost certainly not a developer's first choice, but instead is …

Despite the big learning curve, Vim is the best text editor.

10 out of 10

June 14, 2019

We use Vim a couple of different ways. First and foremost, as a data scientist, it's my primary text editor and daily driver. Nothing else …

Vim Review

9 out of 10

June 12, 2019

I use it every day as a code editor as I mostly love to work from a terminal rather than jumping to other code editors. It's not used …

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What is Vim?

Vim is an open source configurable text editor.

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What is Vim?

Vim is an open source configurable text editor.

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What is Vim?

Vim is an open source configurable text editor.

What is Vim's best feature?

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 6.4.

Who uses Vim?

The most common users of Vim are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Computer Software industry.

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August 23, 2019

Vim - Thinking With Text

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Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

Score 8 out of 10

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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.