Vim Reviews & Product Details

VIM is an amazing IDE with a basic(but powerful) GUI installed by default in Linux and MAC operative systems. It is designed for highly skilled profiles as it is hard to use at the beginning. However, once you dominate the basic commands, you rapidly start to feel comfortable with VIM. A huge community of developers sustain vim, and there are lots of plugins for improving the software capabilities. Apart from that, this IDE also allows modifying files in servers through SSH. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I dislike about VIM. It is simply perfect. However, if I have to mention some handicap, I would mention the difficulties of learning it from scratch, if you compare it with other user-friendly IDEs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VIM is a simple text editor, but when you start to work with VIM, you increase your speed working with each text file a lot. Basically because you can do whatever you needs in a text file, like copy paste, format the code, open tabs of different files and move between them, search across the documents, replace words, and much more things that you can do without the mouse, just with keyboard shortcuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are just one negative thing in VIM and is that for the new users it's a bit hard to start working without the mouse and learn lots of shortcuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VIM it's an advanced text editor for developers and system administrators that are used to work with a terminal and without graphical environment. It has lots of commands to do the typical things with the keyboard instead of the mouse.

When you learn how it works, there no turning back Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not easy to start, there are too much shortcuts to learn before a correct use, and sometimes it's a problem for much people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vim is well-received in the community, fast and easy to setup, lightweight, and comes preinstalled on many Linux distributions. Its mnemonic system makes it very easy to navigate text files sans-mouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extending Vim is possible, with a ton of community support, but it can be a pain at times. Rather than simply double-clicking a plugin on the marketplace, you sometimes have to download GitHub repos, compile and link code, track down compilation issues, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very powerful text editing program which does not insert any special characters into the text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is definitely not for everyone. The program works best in text mode, so if you like working only with a mouse there are better programs than this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vim is a command line text editor, created after the original Vi software in 1991. You can find it -or some variant of it- in almost any modern Unix box around. It's not the kind of software you feel comfortable using since the first day: instead you need to read the manual and practice a lot. But this comes with a reward, you'll be editing your text files at the speed of light.

Features like repetitions, macro recording, counters... makes the most tedious tasks a little more enjoyable.

It's also a great tool for programming: not an IDE, but its syntax highlighting and programming language add-ons make it ideal for C/C++ coding.

And it's free! In both senses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't think there's anything in Vim I dislike. It's got a steep learning curve, though, and even after years of use you still won't master all the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use VIM and gVIM most of the time of work time to develop code and it's really awesome.

First is hard to start, but when you use it during a few weeks you get totally addicted to their functions and posibilities. Without use the mouse, you can do whatever you want, copy and paste, highlight, delete parts, ident the code etc, and all of that, hundred times faster than using the mouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only "but" of this program, is that you need a few weeks (or few months) to use it in "full mode", and even after a long time using it, always you can discover a new function that you don't know. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How in a single terminal I can write, edit, compile and debug my codes.

I do not need to open multiple tabs in other text editors, all could be done in one simple terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately it is not possible to move to the location of interest just by using the mouse cursor and clicking there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is the text editor I use the most because there is an implementation of it on all the operating systems that I use. I use Vim and the same familiar editing commands whether I am working on Windows, MSDOS, Unix, Linux, OpenVMS, or even an Android tablet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vim stands for "vi Improved" and there are many advanced commands that I should learn to use, but haven't. It is a bit of a steep learning curve when just getting started using Vim, but I have found that just the knowing the basic editing commands are all I need to edit any text file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use the VIM for more than 10 years, and is a text editor with incredible potential, when you know how to use it, it has incredible functionality. Being able to use it without an X11 environment allows me to edit code wherever I can connect to SSH, in an agile and simple way. Without a doubt, the best thing to do is the command inputs that allow you to manipulate text in different files, always without the use of mouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve is very large, there are many orders to learn and until it has not worked for a few days it is not useful, on the contrary, it gives more work than anything else, but once you master it it really reduces the time daily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.