10 Reasons Why You Should Use Vi/Vim Text Editor in Linux | Linux Today

10 Reasons Why You Should Use Vi/Vim Text Editor in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Apr 19, 2017

While working with Linux systems, there are several areas where you’ll need to use a text editor including programming/scripting, editing configuration/text files, to mention but a few. There are several remarkable text editors you’ll find out there for Linux-based operating systems.

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Ravi Saive

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