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Vim: The Text Editor For Geeks

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Many of us just love to work with Vim , a simplified text editor with Mouse and GUI is rarely something we use.Being a touch typist we don’t want to move our hands from their position on the keyboard.In simple words,there’s command to everything,from moving the cursor to save and exit. But wait, should I start using Vim just because I’m too lazy to move my hands around mouse? Let me complete, Vim can be used remotely. We can use Vim everywhere and can be run over an SSH connection and it works just well. So if you need to do remote work you only need to learn one tool so why not Vim? What’s Vim? I’m not good with the definitions so lets just copy it from Wikipedia , “ Vim (a contraction of Vi IMproved ) is a clone of Bill Joy 's vi text editor program for Unix. It was written by Bram Moolenaar based on source for a port of the Stevie editor to the Amiga and first released publicly in 1991. Vim is designed for use both from a command-li...