Bubbling…

VIM ( Vi IMproved ) is a simple but very powerful text editor which you can use it to write scripts and generally anything. It’s just a text editor which happened to be so powerful. You can use it inside the terminal which gives you the ability to use it in a non-GUI interface ( which I’m going to try now ) and it has its OWN shortcuts. Weird but understandable shortcuts which are again, easy to get used to. Editing is efficient in it, as I found it more efficient in writing C++ codes.

Anyway, for more information you can see www.VIM.org

For downloading it, if you use linux ( at least one of the most popular distros ) you just need to search in your package manager. For example, in case of fedora, the package is: VIM-X11

now, some quick tips to get started:

- if you want to get started, in terminal, type: $ vimtutor

- with ESC key, you go to the normal mode.

- with ‘i’ key, you can start inserting code.

- for saving: go to normal mode and type ‘:w’ without quotations

- for exiting VIM, go to normal mode and type ‘:q!’ without quotations

There are a lot of useful shortcuts which you can learn through VIM tutor ( vimtutor ). Also there is an IRC channel, #vim, if you would like to join and learn more about VIM through live talk.

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