6 Best Vi/Vim-Inspired Code Editors for Linux | Linux Today

6 Best Vi/Vim-Inspired Code Editors for Linux

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Aaron Kili
May 29, 2018

Tecmint: Vim (short for Vi Improved) is a free, open source, powerful, highly configurable and extensible text editor. It has a large and dedicated community of users that are constantly creating useful new scripts and updates to the text editor. Vim supports hundreds of programming languages and file formats making it one of the best cross-platform code editor.

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Aaron Kili

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