# Vim Reviews **Vendor:** Vim **Category:** [Healthcare Integration Engines](https://www.g2.com/categories/healthcare-integration-engines) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 268 ## About Vim Vim is a highly configurable and efficient text editor, renowned for its versatility and power. As an enhanced version of the traditional 'vi' editor, Vim offers a comprehensive feature set that caters to a wide range of text editing needs, from simple note-taking to complex programming tasks. Its modal design, which separates editing tasks into distinct modes, allows users to perform actions swiftly and with precision. While Vim has a steeper learning curve compared to conventional editors, it rewards users with unparalleled efficiency and control once mastered. Key Features and Functionality: - Modal Editing: Vim operates in different modes—such as Normal, Insert, and Visual—each tailored for specific tasks, enabling efficient text manipulation. - Extensive Customization: Users can tailor Vim to their preferences through a vast array of plugins and scripts, enhancing functionality and adapting the editor to various workflows. - Syntax Highlighting: Vim supports syntax highlighting for numerous programming languages, aiding in code readability and reducing errors. - Multi-File and Multi-Window Support: Users can edit multiple files simultaneously, utilizing split windows and tabs to manage complex projects effectively. - Integrated Help System: Vim includes a comprehensive help system, providing users with immediate access to documentation and guidance. - Cross-Platform Availability: Vim is available on various operating systems, including Unix, Linux, Windows, and macOS, ensuring a consistent editing experience across platforms. Primary Value and User Solutions: Vim addresses the need for a powerful and efficient text editing tool that can handle a wide range of tasks, from simple text editing to complex programming. Its modal design and extensive customization options allow users to tailor the editor to their specific workflows, enhancing productivity and reducing the time spent on repetitive tasks. By supporting multiple programming languages and offering features like syntax highlighting and multi-file editing, Vim serves as a versatile tool for developers and writers alike. Its cross-platform availability ensures that users have a consistent and reliable editing environment, regardless of the operating system they use. ## Vim Reviews ### 1. Most light weight editor for everyday editing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikas V. | Software Consultant, Computer & Network Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Vim?** It can edit large files without breaking a sweat. It has a great repository of plugins available to use for various needs. Clutter free and clean user interface. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Commands would have to be remembered. GUI is limited to none. Works well in mac and Linux but windows support is limited. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are times when processing a large file could take a lot of time, VIM can do it in a jiffy. With its regular expression based search and easy navigation using commands, it is one of the best editors. ### 2. Seamless Integration and User-Friendly Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** prachi g. | Full Stack Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2025 **What do you like best about Vim?** The integration features and overall ease of use make this product very user-friendly. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The application sometimes hangs when there is an overload from managing multiple repositories at once. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick fix and new builds ### 3. Vim: Old but gold **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** k l. | Edge Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Vim?** The same with neovim, I really like the extensible scripting language and the large ecosystem that can be used / repurposed for your needs. It's not the easiest editor to pick up and use. But it's the editor that often encourages workflow and productivity to happen when you're writing code on a daily basis. The features at your disposable are second to none and, while always imitated, very few editors can match it's prowess of the king. These are just the few features I'm leveraging to make myself productive: - various modes: visual / execute / normal - text motions - keybindings - buffers - plugins - registers - number increments - search / replace - marks - macros - vim script - plugin Never mind that I haven't even fully utilize the following: - sessions - folds - netrw (windows) - splits - tabs - global buffer search / replace - tags - remote edit - ... etc **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim's development, while ground breaking at the time, has grown stagnant. The custom scripting language should have been offloaded to a more well thoughtout language such as lua (though lua has it's own problems) so the editor can concentrate on pushing the editor to the next level (I can't even imaginedwhat awesomeness that would be). **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can edit to my heards content without slowing down. ### 4. One of the best text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pratik S. | Research Assistant , Computer & Network Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Vim?** The funcutionality offered by like searching, replacing particular strings and many more. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim is not available by default in many light weight linux distributions. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its modal editing lends itself to lightning fast text entry, and there is a nearly infinite potential growth curve for how its various commands and shortcuts can be efficiently brought to bear in navigating and moving text around. Through the years, various extension technologies have been added to Vi (a-la Vim) that enable it to be extended in various ways, but in my personal hard wrought experience, there are limits as to how far you can push that extension before the both the editing paradigm and the mechanics begin to creak and groan under the weight of what you're trying to accomplish. For instance, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was trying to get IDE like method and member auto-completion and refactoring into the editor. There are various solutions for this in Vim, but they either just plain didn't work, or if they did de-stabilized my Vim installation because they required the installation of C shared libraries that were a pain to build and install. There's nothing quite like having your editor dump core in the middle of a critical editing session to make you reconsider your choice of tools. ### 5. A very strong editor, but with a very steep learning curve **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nir L. | VP R&D, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Vim?** I have been using Vim as my editor of choice for the better part of 25 years now. It has many very useful features and is, once you know how to use it, a convenient tool for basic editing. Since it's available out-of-the-box on most Unix and Linux-based systems (including MacOS) it provides much-needed consistency when working on multiple systems, and allows me to do basic and advanced editing everywhere. Its powerful editing commands include regular-expression-based search-and-replace, quick undo and redo commands, copy/cut/paste commands, and many others. I also love the ability to configure defaults in a .vimrc file so I can save my preferences between sessions, and automatic syntax highlighting is also a personal favorite. But, without question, the best feature of Vim is its ability to handle ridiculously large files without problem. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Ok, yes, it's very complicated to learn. You have to understand how that editor functions and change the state of mind that you have in simpler, more modern, visual editors. The help system is not very helpful, and you can find yourself sometimes googling 'how to remove line numbers in Vim' because you simply cannot remember if it's :set numbers or :set linenumbers. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Vim to edit all types on files on console based systems, that much is obvious. But it is also very useful for opening, editing, and searching very large files on my desktop. It has a very powerful search and replace engine that is both simple and limitless (again, once you learn how to use it). ### 6. Screen-based Text Editor Program - Vim **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijay P. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is a free and open source text editor. It allows us to make changes to the any kind of text in a very efficient way. It is commonly used in UNIX systems and in Apple OS **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim is time consuming when compared to other text editor like Sublime, Notepad++. It has many shortcuts key associated with keyboard difficult to remember them all. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** While working with server in case if we need to make any changes to existing file or do we have to make any changes to an existing file in that case it is really beneficial for us. ### 7. Best tool for Creating/Editing files in CLI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajendra K. | Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Vim?** Working with Vim makes you an excellent developer, as it is widely used in most of the organizations to work on servers. It is very efficient with very limited resource utilization and high performance and provides you the functionality to automate. In the long run, everyone finds it very helpful for their productivity. It is especially useful for people working on servers through CLI and who need to use it frequently. **What do you dislike about Vim?** For new users, working with Vim is a complex task with learning curve and especially with multiple commands to remember, and in terms of customization, it is not that suitable compared to other alternatives. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Change configurations and properties of remote servers - very fast and efficient in terms of resource utilization - Its customization and consistency ### 8. Good for editing files on a VPS Server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anirudh S. | Web Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Vim?** This one is the best code editor in linux bases hosting server. It has syntax highligthing which is easier to use compared to Nano. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It's just a terminal based (CLI) code editor but overall good for web servers. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just fixing a minor (generally syntax errors) lines of bug using SSH over a Web Server. ### 9. Vim too complex or worth the trouble **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ARYAN S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Vim?** The thing I like the most about Vim is the long list of text manipulation options, which do have a learning curve but are of great help once you get the hang of it **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim is a complex tool by today's standards that prefer a WYSIWYG approach to text editing, Vim has a steep learning curve that may see people quit learning how to use it in the initial stage **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vim is a readily available text editing and document creation tool that works quite well with bash scripting in operating systems like Linux. Once we get past the learning curve Vim can surely make the document creating and editing process much faster ### 10. Simple, flexible, and ubiquitous **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Vim?** It is simple and easy to use. Works well over ssh. We can almost entirely avoid using the mouse if we do not want to use the mouse often. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It would be nice if plugins were simpler to set up. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vim is my primary code/document editor, so I use it a *lot* every day. I can work fast since I like to use my keyboard more and mouse less. ### 11. Experience on using vim **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajan G. | Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Vim?** It can be used as a gui tool as well as a command line tool, it help me to configure or edit anything on my remote servers to edit the configuration it is a really useful text editor **What do you dislike about Vim?** The gui feels a little out dated, as compared to others like the vs code or sublime merge, which comes with bunch of tools that are helpful like selecting simmilar occurence etc. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use vim to edit the configuration or make changes to my remote server properties, it runs on the command line and is very light and fast, making it much easier to use. ### 12. Best inline file editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhav P. | Back End Engineer Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** I started using vim from my training in Linux from there I have never looked back it has the best features of all time all keyboard commands to do anything if you become a power user in vim I don't think you guys are going to get anything more good than this the way i can easily cut a line using dd or remove a character with x or save with :wq is better than using those useless nano shortcuts **What do you dislike about Vim?** it actually has so many commands there should be good documentation from the company about all the features of vim and many of its most used features should be documented instead of someone just giving us a paid course for it **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping me save time by giving us the best inline editor to easily edit some files instead of using our vscode or some other heavy editor or IDE and the most useful feature that I always use is "dd" which just deletes a line or to more exactly cuts the line and we can paste it using "p" I also use it remove the lines ### 13. Powerful terminal text editor with a steep learning curve **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** From my first months working here at Globant I can say that I feel honored of being a part of such a great team, everyone that I worked with was kind and professional, and I am really thankful of having wonderful teammates. Working in the CleaResult project, I dedicated myself to performing tasks with excellence. There are many challenges so I push myself to provide the best solutions that fit the client's needs. There is still a lot to improve, so I am looking forward to setting new goals for the rest of 2021 **What do you dislike about Vim?** It is very unintuitive and has a very steep learning curve. People say it pays off, but it takes so much time to learn! **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Use the in-built tutorial called 'vimtutor' to start learning the commands. Many people swear by this text editor: if you want to achieve a complicated task when editing text, sometimes you can google, and you will find a vim expert with a set of commands that can help solve your problem. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Text editing on remote servers is easy because vim is available right at the command line of the Linux servers. It is a potent tool, extremely lightweight, and can open huge files that other text editors cannot. ### 14. Steep learning curve but couldn't ever go back **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Vim?** I like how you don't need to use your mouse, and it's much faster to get an idea in your head to actual code using Vim. I also like that I feel more like a hacker, not gonna lie. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It has a steep learning curve, which can be intimidating for some. It's also annoying when you're using a Vim plugin in apps where you can't use pure Vim and the shortcuts conflict. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me write code and documentation much faster and it benefits me by making it more enjoyable and helps me iterate quickly to a better product overall. It solves the problem of productivity. ### 15. A Simple but complicated text editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** HARSH P. | Web developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is one of the common text editors for Linux distros, it is not so popular but it does the work, If you have worked with vim before then it will be very easy to use. **What do you dislike about Vim?** VIM is very complicated to use it is a programmer's worst nightmare, The most difficult issue while using vim is to exit vim although it is a very easy command every time I have to exit vim I have to try the command 3-4 times. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vim isn't solving any of my particular problems but it is easy to use after you get the hang of it and it helps in editing text files very easily. ### 16. VIM useful tips **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PYAE PHYOE S. | DevOps Engineer, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Vim?** It's quite easy to update anything that I need to do in the terminal. **What do you dislike about Vim?** it should be pre-installed in every linux or ubuntu. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** If we want to update anything inside the terminal, we normally need to use Vi. However vi isn't quite as easy as Vim that's why we decided to use Vim instead of Vi. ### 17. Doc Hero **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nazim S. | Administration, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** one of the best text editors in the Linux system the best thing is compatible with all types of extensions. And the other best thing is you can highlight the text. And the other best thing is debugging mode of vim and other best thing without going to insert mode you cannot able to edit the file. **What do you dislike about Vim?** there is nothing to dislike about the vim editor but nothing is perfect in IT (Information Technology) it highlights the text in red which is not error which is irritating and impacts the eyes which needs to be changed **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** definitely why not **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** solving too many issues it helps in writing programs which is quite useful and helpful to debug the issue and spelling errors that got highlighted and easy to find and replace the words and sentences in the file. ### 18. The best editor for linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** DHARMA B. | Sr Engineer -- Software Design, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Since Linux users prefer command line interface VIM makes it easier for the users to use commands to configure the editor. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The graphics/ colours of the text while using vim -d (diff between the two files). It looks unpleasant in the terminal. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** In normal editors it's a bit difficult to copy the texts from columns alone, vim makes it easier by providing a visual mode (ctrl + v) ### 19. Let's command the editing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash V. | Software developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** It doesn't take much for the computer to have vim. The commands are hard to learn but when you learn it. You feel the quick and responsive nature of vim. Awesome . **What do you dislike about Vim?** I feel the learning curve of vim is a bit what makes you think should I invest that much time for learning vim or should I go for another editor which makes stuff easy for me **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** If you are willing to give some time to learn vim. You are gonna be treated with enormous features. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vim is an all-in-one editor you can use vim for anything without worrying about support. Secondly, by not providing many unnecessary features it makes our life easy. ### 20. Vim is awesome!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is very easy to modify to your liking, you can program it and add plugins to adapt it to your needs **What do you dislike about Vim?** The only thing might be that in order to learn is has somewhat of a high learning curve **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster programming ### 21. It is the best free IDE for GO programming language **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya T. | Software Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** It is a very light IDE that uses very less RAM. It is included in most of the Linux distributions. The best feature which I like about Vim is its code linting and AI-integrated auto-completion feature. It is very easy to collaborate with your other team members using VIM. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim works very well on Linux operating system but its functionality is a bit weird when using the windows version of VIM. I did not like its syntax highlighting feature very much as it becomes buggy at times. Its UI is not very much beginner-friendly. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently using Vim to provide an Integrated Development Environment for the code writing of my GO programming language as it works best with it according to me. It is open-source software that allows you to make it work according to your needs. It is available at absolutely no cost to the users. It has a lot of customizable templates, which can also be a motivating factor for your code writing and hence increase your efficiency. ### 22. VIM is an excellent IDE which I use for GO programming language. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjiv S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Its real-time collaboration feature is very good which helps you save a lot of your time. I personally like its color-coded syntax feature very much. Its syntax highlighting and code linting is very well optimized. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It does not have a fully optimized auto-completion feature like other paid software. It does not work well on Linux operating system. It is not much compatible with HTML and JavaScript programming languages. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am primarily using VIM for the code editing of my JavaScript programming language as I found it to be the most compatible with this programming language only. It provides a very good coding environment so that you do not feel bored. It is available free of cost to the user which benefits you financially. ### 23. Best file editing tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash R. | Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Its very easy to edit create update files using vim from terminal. You ca just open terminal and type vim. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There should be list of commands on the screen while editing or creating doc so that its easy to work with for new users. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can edit any kind of file. Be it executable or anything. ### 24. Powerful but a little confusing at beginning **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bipul H. | CP Lead | CodeChef CGC Chapter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** It's my second most used editor after VSCode, and I mostly used it for writing small programs. It provides syntax highlighting of almost all programming languages I used with it. You can also enhance your experience with vim by installing various plugins for it. **What do you dislike about Vim?** At first, it wasn't obvious for me to get started with it. I faced many issues when I used it for the first time, so definitely anyone who is thinking of using it, please make sure to watch some guides or tutorials from YouTube before opening any file with it. An excellent place to start is to run "vimtutor" which will tell you all the basics you should know to get familiar with it. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it very often whenever I have to make any minor changes to any file or to read any code instead of by using the cat command as it provides syntax highlighting, which helps me a lot to understand the code better. I also used it to create any file in the remote server I accessed through ssh. ### 25. The Pro Code and Text Editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is an editor that is used by most of the good developers who are truly interested in doing their jobs. This is because of the speed and shortcuts that make it very easy to edit any part of the code without having to touch your mouse even once. If you are a good developer you will understand how inefficient it is to repeatedly take your hand off your keyboard to use your mouse or your arrow keys to edit code or text. Best part of Vim is that it makes it very efficient to edit text/code without having to take your hand off your keyboard even once. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There is not much to dislike about Vim, but one thing I dislike is it's learning curve. For any beginner, it is not at all easy to get used to Vim and thus, many people give up in the beginning phase as they think that it was easier with their old editor only. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** If you are considering Vim, I would suggest you to give it few hours to practice it and then I can guarantee that you will definitely feel the difference in your efficiency once you get hold of it. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a freelance Web Developer and I have to write a lot of code on daily basis and thus I usually use Vim on my PC as it is one of the fastest ways for writing code for me. I don't have to move my hand from the keyboard and thus my efficiency is at it's peak most of the times. Also, I can use the standalone application of vim for windows or I can also use it's extension for VS Code which combines the power of two of my favourite code editors. ### 26. Powerful but difficult editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Georges A. | Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** It can make programming a fast process once you know all the right shortcuts. There is a key combination for everything, and I can quickly do whatever I want as long as I know what to put in. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The learning curve is very steep, and I'm not sure that can be helped. I find it hard to introduce it to my friends because they like easy text editing. It personally took me a week or two during break to be comfortable with it, while simpler editor took me a day. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Be sure you have time to learn how to use it well; otherwise you can ruin something! Once you become good at it, it is hard to mess things up, but the wrong key combination can ruin your work. Save frequently, and you should do fine. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use vim mostly for coding in C/C++ because it has solid support for the language. I have memorized enough key combinations to be very speedy with it as well, and the C++ plugins allow for autocompletion, which I love. ### 27. Usage of Vim **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nilantha H. | Consultant, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Searching and replacing capability chars **What do you dislike about Vim?** Ability to combine lines and words Interface colors **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** I am using Vim for nearly 14 years for my scripting and this is the best tool I have ever found though a plethora of other alternatives emerged recently. This improves the efficiency of coding much higher compared to other tools. I recommend anyone to use this software but if you are not familiar you should have patience while learning and then you will find the best tool for your work. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scripting to automate various functions with python and shell scripting ### 28. Better than notepad++ **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** I like this because in Linux we don't have much option like windows. And this works very much with ease and convenience. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There is nothing I dislike about VIM editor and I would recommend this to others too. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** They problem pf writing a code in different language and executing the code, debugging ,editing etc are few examples. ### 29. A very lightweight IDE **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anmol S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** It is a very much configurable IDE for Javascript. It has hundreds of plugins available which can be used to boost your code writing speed. It is very lightweight. I personally like its autosave function very much which helps you a lot in case of an electricity cut. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It does not have a really good UI which makes it a bit difficult for amateurs to find different settings on it. It is not fully optimized for heavy usage and hence, I have faced crashing issues several times. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently using Vim as a text editor for my Javascript programming language. It has made me much more productive than I earlier was by providing a lot of plugins and keyboard shortcuts. I appreciate its auto-completion feature the most. ### 30. The most user friendly IDE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit G. | Software Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim has one of the best UI and is the most friendly text editor I have ever used. It is very lightweight software, and I have never faced any lagging issues with it. It comes at no cost to the user and is also an open-source software. It allows you to add a lot of plugins according to your requirements. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There is nothing that I dislike about Vim as it has almost everything which I need for my coding. The only thing which can be improved a bit is its auto-completion feature. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** I would recommend to Vim to all the Java programmers as it is a ompletely free IDE for it. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am personally using Vim as a text editor for Java Programming as I found it to have the strongest hold over this language only. Also, Vim being a free IDE saves my money too besides increasing my productivity. ### 31. Review of Vim **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Developers of Vim built it into Mac Terminal. Hence, it is very nice. It does not take any time to load. Hence, it allows you to make small changes in no time. It allows you to configure it and use it in the way you want as it is an open-source text editor. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It does not have any problem in my opinion, as it allows you to correct the problems that you face on your own by configuring it according to your needs. Although, configuring it is a bit hectic task. But, except this, everything is fine. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Vim as a text editor is recommended to all, but to use it after configuration, one would require professional skills. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I primarily use Vim as a text editor for my C++ and C coding as I find Vim to have a strong hold over this language. By providing endless customization oppurtunities, it has allowed me to configure the software according to my highest efficiency. ### 32. Vim - One of the best text editors **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sourav S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is an extremely lightweight software that allows you to run it on almost any pc. Its booting time is significantly less and hence fasts up the small editing changes you require in your code. It has very powerful key bindings, which speed up your code writing. It provides you with some outstanding plugins. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It does not have some features which most other IDE's have, like linking and auto-completion. Its learning curve is difficult for most newbie software developers. It does not have an attractive UI. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** I would surely recommend Vim to all the Java developers. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Vim primarily for my Java coding as I find Vim to have really strong support for the language. Having a good grab over the keybinds, has made me much more productive. Also, by adding some more plugins, it can be made the best IDE for Java. ### 33. A powerful text editor if you know how to use it well **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** What I like best is Vim's editing experience. I only need to use the keyboard with a limited number of keys to edit the Vim document. Vim is very fast and can be used to edit any kind of file. Compared to Notepad++, Vim is faster and looks cooler. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Actually, because Vim allows you to edit a document without using the mouse, it takes time for beginners to start using Vim. Also, although the user interface of Vim is cool, some non-tech people may not like it much. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using Vim to edit configuration files, like Kubernetes definition files and Linux system configuration files. In general, Vim allows me to edit them quickly without being interrupted by anything else. Therefore, Vim increases my productivity. ### 34. Very Powerful Text Editor If You Know How To Use It **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oğuzhan K. | Embedded Linux Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** I am working as an Embedded Linux Software Developer for Broadband Systems. Therefore, I am using everyday CLI (Command-line interface) in order to write/read code. Vim is an excellent tool for that purpose, and with its modes, you can easily manage your business. If you learn how to use Vim, it gives you the ability to control your code very efficiently instead of an IDE. Besides, thanks to the extensions such as VimScript, you can easily use it for scripting languages. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Although it is such a powerful tool, it has some unnecessary extensions. Therefore, users can be confused from time to time about using that kind of extension. On the other hand, the documentation for Vim is not well prepared for the users. In the beginning, it is hard to adopt and understand what they mean. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** If you learn the keybindings and shortcuts of Vim, it will be definitely worth it. Besides, there are some tutorials and courses on the internet (such as Udemy). They will be helpful to learn and adapt to the usage of its power. It is also recommended to do lots of practice in order to use Vim without think or losing time to remember the combinations etc. After using it a lot, it will be hard to forget. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to manage my business without needing any additional tools. I can easily search what I am searching for, or I can quickly write what I want to add to my code. The benefits for CLI-based coding make unbeatable the Vim for that field. ### 35. Hard to learn but it’s the best editor out there. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | IT CONSULTANT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** The amount of plugins available. Also it allows you to work at a blazing speed once you learn to navigate. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim can be very intimidating and a bit difficult to learn if specially if this is your first time getting on a console. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Practice makes perfect. Don't give up if it's a bit difficult at first. It will pay off in the end. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vim allows me to work fast when it comes to editing code and the best part is that most Linux systems come with it preinstalled. ### 36. Intuitive text editor, very fast once you get used to its shortcuts **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Apoorv G. | SDE - 2, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is there in the game for a long time and is one of the developer favourites. Vim gives powerful features to navigate files and perform actions. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim can be hard to learn initially and might have a steep learning curve in the initial phase but is very fast and powerful once you get used to it. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vim is very lightweight and powerful and is supported across a lot of platforms which makes Vim a good choice for editing on almost any machine. ### 37. The best editor for coding **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zhenyu Z. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is a pretty light weight editor installed on almost all machines with Mac OS or Linux. I really love it and use it as my main editor because it can edit all types of files, and provides tons of features, including searching, insertion, replacement, formatting, coloring etc. As an editor mainly for software development, Vim even provides the functionality to specify a custom profile file, which can define default fancy custom rules to make Vim easier to use. For example, I have my profile file indicating that Vim should record the line before I last closed the file and jump to that line once I opened the file again. It is pretty convenient. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The learning curve for Vim is relatively high. New comers are usually very confused about even basic operations like how to edit a file or how to quit the editor. I acknowledge that the convenience comes from familiarity, there is no free lunch. Also, because Vim does not have a UI, it might not be suitable for non-tech people. Using Vim is generally a sign for a "nerd". The design is not very user friendly, at least certainly not newbie friendly. One needs to keep a cheat sheet at first for using Vim smoothly, and can only gradually get rid of the cheat sheet when he or she is more familiar with Vim's philosophy. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** I would highly recommend Vim to new CS students as their first editor. Like Linux, although the learning curve is steep, as long as you can overcome the learning curve, it will be fairly convenient. But for people who are already familiar with another editor like Emacs or Nano, it might be not such worth it to learn Vim because their functionalities overlap a lot. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Vim to edit files including docs, source code, and even to search for certain content in a binary file. Like notepad in windows, Vim is the panacea of Linux. It can open any files as you want, although binary files may not be opened with ascii code. I like the design that you can switch between view mode and edit mode, that simply avoids the case that one happened to press a wrong key on the key board, input a character but not notice that. ### 38. Editor for linux environments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohan K. | Backend Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** We use it mainly when editing or adding files on the remote server. It is swift, and the go-to editor in Linux environments as Vim is pre-bundled in Linux. Adding comments or editing a file is super easy on Vim. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The learning curve is steep as there are many shortcut keys to remember to save the changes or do not save the changes. There is no autocomplete or indentation, which makes code visualization tough. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** We edit environment files or files present in the deployed code in a remote server using Vim as our editor. ### 39. Most configurable text editor for command line **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** I really like the speed with which I can work on editing the text files using Vim. I can configure the tool to customize multiple shortcuts which makes it very easy for me to work on. The ability to open multiple files with different file formats, compressed files, etc makes it really flexible. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The learning curve is very steep and is not very intuitive for someone coming from GUI-based text editors. Of course there are GUI based alternatives like gVim, and macVim but they are not very popular and I do not know how they are maintained. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do not use it actively on a regular basis. But I like to use it when I want to search/replace the files that I use and when I am already using the command line. Rather than opening the GUI-based editors, I open Vim as it would be handy. ### 40. Vim review by Adarsh **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adarsh R. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** It's very lightweight and fast and open source, it has many plugins support, every action can be performed without a mouse and it is available on all platforms. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It is difficult to learn it and to add plugins to it. Copying file contents to clipboard is also very complicated. Its documentation doesn't cover many features like auto completion,etc **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my Linux cli I write code effectively even without a gui editor using vim. I use it to edit or create files on the go or search for keywords within the file ### 41. Vim is a very fast and convenient text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** The beauty of vim is that one can edit huge file with greater ease. There are lot of commands and one can write custom macros to process a file. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Sometimes not everything can be done with commands. I feel vim should also be compatible with controlling by mouse just like nedit software. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use vim to handle all the reports, text files for my projects. I can make any sort of updates with greater ease and in a very short time unlike any other softwares like Microsoft word etc. ### 42. The best text editor for Linux based OS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arsalan K. | Technical Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** Can handle huge files like butter. Even if they are billions of lines. The vim shortcut commands are so helpful that even without a toolbar and context menu Vim is still the most easiest yet powerful tool in the market. Customization can be done according to your requirement. I.e. Changing the tab size Syntax coloring support helps for developing applications **What do you dislike about Vim?** Not the same level of integration is available for other platforms like Windows Lacks something like single quit/exit button. It takes few short commands to close the file and exit. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Navigating in huge log files, search, go-to, find, replace Read, write, load, reload files for viewing purpose. I have used it as a main tool for writing c language based application code over Redhat Linux environment where we had almost no IDE available. ### 43. Best all in one editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** It comes pre-installed on almost all Linux distributions. It also has cross-platform support and it runs on CLI machines, it is very extensible with help of plugins **What do you dislike about Vim?** It has a very steep learning code and can get intimidating at the start also the same level of features are not available out of the box on Windows. Also, there are a lot of commands to remember for basic navigation too. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Linux CLI machines I write and edit code easily and confidently with VIM and perform any repetitive tasks using VIM macros, I also use it to resolve git merge conflicts. ### 44. Versatile and powerful text editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isaac A. | Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** - How fast, ubiquitous, and flexible it is -> It is very lightweight when considering how many features and capabilities it has - Extensible -> via VimScript and even other scripting languages - The huge amount of plugins and passionate community - After learning how to operate it basically, this thing is unbeatable - It is so productive and popular among programmers that most IDEs offer Vim keybindings, and the ones that don't are constantly requested for it to be added **What do you dislike about Vim?** - Documentation sucks (mainly because it lacks a website, a PDF, an explanation of how to use the built-in one, and it misses some search or table of contents that is more obvious to use - VimScript is exciting but unnecessary - Bus factor of 1 -> Only one active owner of the project. Thankfully NeoVim exists. I also think the Vim community will have a successor after the author isn't actively working on it anymore. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** The learning curve for Vim keybindings is worth it. There are free tutorials inside vim and gamified tutorials on the internet that will help you learn them. They are "hard" to forget once you get used to them. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm editing all of my config files with it. Sometimes I even avoid a heavy IDE in favor of its simplicity and speed. ### 45. Vim, the most powerful text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Animesh K. | Member Of Technical Staff, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** The best thing about Vim is that it works on all kinds of Unix-based operating systems, whether it be a PC or a server. Also, with the help of some plugins we can turn it into an excellent deveopment environment for most the of the programming languages like Python, Go, etc. **What do you dislike about Vim?** For newcomers, it can be frightening to learn about different modes like Insert, Visual, Visual Block, etc. It would require you give some time to it for learning and then it would become your favorite editor eventually. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** It's an excellent editor which works even on the servers which don't have a GUI. It's a good time investment to learn it before using it. Otherwise, you would be scared of it. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it as the most handy text editor on my local machine as well as on the remote server. It's a light-weight, yet powerfull editor which can turn into an IDE with the help of some plugins. Also, it is the best choice of editor to use with git. When you have to add/amend a commit or resolve merge conflicts, Vim can be very helpful. Usually git would have it as the default editor. ### 46. Ubiquitous, simple and powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanchit B. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** - Present on most operating systems by default - All commands at the tip of your fingertips, no time wasted moving your hand from keyboard to mouse and back - Very lightweight process - Lots of plugins to customize your developer experience - Navigating through large files is a breeze, especially ones that freeze a regular text editor **What do you dislike about Vim?** - Steep learning curve, can be off-putting to beginners - Sometimes it really is faster to click instead of remember the series of commands you need to get to the line **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I typically use Vim to edit CSV and JSON files. I used to write code but ended up switching to VS Code which suits my purpose a lot better. For large CSV and JSON files VS Code and most other fancy editors just freeze. Occasionally I will just need to see how many rows there are in a CSV and Vim is a no-brainer for the same reason. ### 47. Best editor for cli machines **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** It is open-source, lightweight has cross-platform support, and is highly customizable ,its functionality can be extended using plugins and it is the most productive tool **What do you dislike about Vim?** It is not user-friendly for new users and it has a steep learning curve even for basic tasks. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Vim to edit program, Yaml, and JSON files on my AWS CLI Linux machines, I use it to create macros for repetitive tasks and I also use it to make bash scripts ### 48. Vim review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Megha S. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** The best features are how it makes the text editing so convenient for the MacOS users like us. With few commands we can perform a complex task and is super customisable. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Nothing so far. Help us a lot in our organisation. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's amazing for the programmers. We can define our keybindings, set themes, install plugins and so much more. Vim macro is one such amazing tool helped us to automate lot of things. ### 49. Vim The Legacy that can't be given up **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhaswar P. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Vim?** The simplicity, and accessibility of the editor. Some of the upsides of using Vim as a text editor would be : * Direct access from command line in the current directory. * Ability to customize down to the core. * Launch time, which is very quick. * No need to leave shell and be able to write commands alongside. * Seamless switch between command modes. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The initial learning curve which is very steep, one can't get his way around via any alternative. Some of the other points would be : * Very little visual representation of being in different modes( for e.g, could have the text go grey when the command mode is on) * Lack of alternative to the commands * Complete absense of something like intellisense. * The lack of ability to drag and drop multiple tabs, and difficulty of managing them if the tab commands are not known **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Use cases where Vim could be the first choice: * On a low end machine where it is not desiable to install multiple softwares. * On a machine with no GUI inteface and only shell access * When no IDE is used and most of the time is spent on shell for scripting. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making batch scripts, and quick edits of files on shell server, as it's about the only editor available easily for quick edits using SSH. Benefits would be not needing any additional installation for linux systems and being able to run it quick. Some of the quick benefits: * No need to leave shell * Available by default on most shell flavours ### 50. Vim - Powerful Terminal Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Vim?** Extensions for vim, Shortcuts that make life easier while developing. Ability to have multiple panes. Text Manipulations. 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