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Vim

Vim (abbreviated from Vi IMproved) is perhaps the single most popular open-source text editor among developers using Linux, as while it is not beginner-friendly, once one becomes used to its unique keymap one can edit files using it very efficiently. It is intended to be an improvement on the original vi editor of UNIX that was written by Bill Joy. The original vi was proprietary so Vim was originally forked from an open-source clone of vi. It is written in C and Vim script (VimL), is blazing fast to start up, and is available from both the command-line and has a graphical user interface (GUI) called GVim. It can also be used for several other purposes too that are convenient to developers, including compiling programs, executing programs and executing shell commands. It is also extensively customizable with the use of plugins written in its own programming language, Vim script. Its main user configuration file is ~/.vimrc, other scripts affecting its behaviour can be found by running: