Vim Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The amount of plugins available. Also it allows you to work at a blazing speed once you learn to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vim can be very intimidating and a bit difficult to learn if specially if this is your first time getting on a console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.