# 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. No mouse **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler M. | Senior Manager Engineering - Team Trailhead, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** I can move quick in my code using the keyboard and extend vim with all the plugins to make is more super awesome. Also Tim Pope is great. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There's not much I dislike. It works great. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing and finding code fast. ### 2. All the power of IDE in text Editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** It is very fast and functionality like delete multiple line insert, Copy and many more useful commands are just a key away! The ability to exercise that power on pretty much any computer that has a keyboard **What do you dislike about Vim?** There are a lot of commands, and it becomes little bit confusing some time for beginners! **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Just start playing with it. You’ll love it more than any other editor **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web app development ### 3. best old school code editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit V. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** vim's ability to code in another server, remote code editing is the best part, screen split is also very good feature, very fast editor, large file support other editor hangs if file is of large size **What do you dislike about Vim?** None as such only thing is you need to remember lots of commands, some times commands can be dangerous also **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** None **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using vim from the day is started my career, used it for debugging writing shell script etc ### 4. Vim on linux, windows, where ever! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** The speed of typing, macros and efficiency boost you'll receive by learning a few keystrokes is worth it! **What do you dislike about Vim?** It hasn't been updated in a while but that makes it consistent. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** A highly productive tool for any development or text processing. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** General word processing and python development. ### 5. Great editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Razin Z. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** Lightweight, Good functionality and no nonsense **What do you dislike about Vim?** I don;t really have anything against it really. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Definitely recommended **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just simple text editing and saving back up code. ### 6. Good text editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johnny W. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** Highlights the codes in colors. Makes it convince to see **What do you dislike about Vim?** Have been using Notepad++ for quite a while and nothing to dislike **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** When going through some source codes line by line , it helps to keep it organized ### 7. VIM Editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** VIM is a standard and long time used tool in the Linux world. It is a default installed app that i preinstalled on every Linux flavor I know of. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It has quite a learning curve for first time users. The command have to be learned and in no way come natural to new linux users. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Just dive in and learn it if you use or plan on using linux. In the linux world it is almost a must. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows the editing of text files. Once learned it is alway on all flavors of linux. ### 8. It's gets better with time. Built because we read more often that we write code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prayash M. | Founding Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** The shortcuts for everything and then they also configurable. You can add more according to your need. The coding community helps a lot with lot of plugins and scripts to just do about anything you want to. I was really sold on the idea that it let's you hack together your own IDE than just using one everyone else uses. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The learning curve. It is steep. If you just try to mug up all those shortcuts, it is going to be very difficult to work with the code. Found some easy vim talks which explained that how closely vim commands are related to what exactly they do. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Vim can be intimidating with the steep learning curve, but don't worry. You can use it howsoever you please. They are lot of plugins, use them. Remember, all the commands mean something, they relate to the action they perform. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I read, edit and write code with this tool. ### 9. Lets you code anywhere **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim can be be pretty much installed anywhere that you could possibly ever code, making it incredibly useful to know. From your personal machine to SSH'ing into a production server, by knowing vim you can modify code wherever you are. Also offers a high level of customization for more advanced users. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There is not much to dislike about vim, as it serves it's purpose of being a lightweight, flexible text editor pretty well. The only thing I can think of is that there is a higher learning curve in the beginning when compared to something like Sublime **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** For more advanced users, I highly suggest checking out how to customize Vim to better suit your needs / coding preferences. These additions can make Vim much more useful than it is out of the box, but again requires the user to be fairly comfortable with the editor. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem I am solving with Vim is the ability to reliably code anywhere, including on environments outside of my person machine. Vim does a great job of this as it is included by default on many machines, and is easily installed on machines that it is not. ### 10. light text editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilyess B. | Intern, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** code coloration very beautiful text editor **What do you dislike about Vim?** not providing code competition or correcting words **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** it's very easy and fondamental **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** unix development ### 11. Easy GUI for the vi editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando G. | Research & Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** The greatest thing about this program is that it allows you to use the vi editor without knowing their commands. It allow to open big files in a GUI editor. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It could take a lot of time to open bigger files **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** In Windows OS, we can open files that we are not able to open with other editors. In other OS, it gives us a GUI for vi. ### 12. Vim has enabled me to write code more efficiently. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** J Jesus A. | Software Engineer, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** I really like that I don't need to leave my keyboard to move around the text files or between them. It runs on almost any kind of operating system. You can extend its functionality with the plugins available. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim has a pretty steep learning curve, so it can be very overwhelming to the newcomer. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Be patient, it takes the to get a hold on all the bindings. There are awesome books and resources out there. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Vim, I can keep writing code without having to interrupt my train of thought switching between windows or moving around the mouse. ### 13. Lightweight development tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** 1. works in various Os 2. light weight 3. great shortcuts **What do you dislike about Vim?** 1. Lack of good documentation 2. not compatible with all programming languages. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. development tool. faster development time ### 14. Vim is an easy and efficient way to review and modify code **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel M. | Customer Service Engineer, Machinery, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** It is very quick and low resources consuming piece of software. It represent clearly all the text that I need to review and also a quick shortcut to modify code. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It has a steep learning curve in order to fully take benefit of all its features. A novice user can find it complicated but when you start learning all the usual shortcuts you can edit quickly code and also plain text. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** I recommend VIM to encrypt files. It is very easy to apply encrypt functions via the command line interface which is very useful if there is only remote access to some machine through SSH and such. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to automate several process in my day to day work. Some times I use it to modify plain text, it does not need to open in a graphical user interfac (GUI) mode. ### 15. Default Productivity Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** Being able to manipulate text has never been more easy. With a few strokes of the keyboard, which I earned by being able to remember. **What do you dislike about Vim?** When you tell a person to just use Vim to do something and they are unfamiliar with it, so you have to provide all of the text in addition to the keyboard commands. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** This is a no bullshit tool that makes it where you can maximize your 1337'ness. When you blaze through the console in such a way that proves to your colleagues that you are the alpha of the team. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** By being able to just get shit done with no overhead Vim solves the problem of providing a standardized IDE, albeit stripped down. ### 16. Best coding editor I have seen till now **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suman R. | QA Tester, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** I prefer using VIM as my default text editor because it is very lightweight although I have added many external plugins in it. It provides easy navigation in the code and replacing the existing code. It works with major languages such as Python and Javascript, which I use the most in my coding for providing the syntax highlighter to correct the errors. It also has very fast access without requiring the mouse when compared to ATOM. Connection through SSH is excellent for remote systems. It is an open source text editor and has a large user community backing it up. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It lacks somewhere in the color-coding for programming text and requires extensive settings for that. In order to use it in the most effective way, one has to know the shortcuts and other commands well before using it, so it will definitely take some time to become an expert in using VIM. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** If you want to have a light weight Code editor, then VIM is an excellent option. Before started jumping on directly on using it, spend some time on its tutorial program to get familiar with its shortcuts and other commands. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use VIM for writing my test cases and editing the existing code and it saves a lot of time by using the shortcuts available in VIM. It is quite convenient for me when it comes to searching for folders and directories for source code files using VIM. I work on Client’s remote systems to modify the existing code with the help of VIM editor. ### 17. Working with VIM since 8 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** It doesn't hang the machine while open a large file. vim editor doesn't require a mouse. its very helpful to edit the code on servers as they don't have graphics user interface(linux). Its an open source. **What do you dislike about Vim?** its a little bit difficult to start as you need to learn command. Once you start using it, it’s like crack . Its overall on keyboard command base. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used vim editor to write the code on the server. I also open the large size file in vim as its not consume to much memory. Its very easy to find text in vim. ### 18. Vim is a must know for linux developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James H. | Senior Web Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** It's ready to go on linux and mac. Just paste in your dot file and you're straight up and running with your editor set how you like it. If you've never used it, it's worth learning just for fun, too, because it is such a different way of working with text that you'll be amazed by the features. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It needs to come with config package manager for installing and setting up your environments how you like it with a guide, rather than having to spend days researching plugins and settings to build your effective dot net file. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Learn it even if you don't intend to use it in the long term. One day you'll benefit greatly by not having to install any software just to be able to edit files on a server. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's free, so it saves money. It's quick and easy, so there's less time required to set it up for new users. It's simple so there's no errors and glitches to fix unlike normal software. I've benefited from all three in every job I've had. Most importantly speed, because I hate setting up IDEs and mapped drives. ### 19. For the Hardcore **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2015 **What do you like best about Vim?** I like that you do not have to take your hands off of the keyboard. Vim has so many shortcuts and the ability to record macros to build the most efficient and customizable workflow that you can manage. When you understand Vim it gives you additional confidence to be able to use any unix machine. You can also add plugins to extend it or even import your own settings onto any machine remotely. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The learning curve is steep. You need to be a great typer and understand the logic that makes Vim magical. I think of it as another language. The way that you have to think about your movement and editing can limit your code output at first. You must always know what state that you are in. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to become a better programmer and when using git you end up in Vim. I think that it is important to understand all of the environments that you work in to make sure that you can operate efficiently. ### 20. One of my favorite editors with quality features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lokesh Y. | Logistics Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** What I like best about Vim editor is it has got advanced and powerful shortcuts, commands and plugins for editing my code, scripts and batch files. It provides a small bar in the lower right corner which will let you know the mode you are operating in. I can easily enter a key in my document if I am in insert mode by just hitting the key. While in command mode, hitting a key will execute that command and you don’t need to do any extra efforts for this. Also, switching between the modes is made very easy, as you can just press the Escape key to do so. **What do you dislike about Vim?** When I first started using Vim, I was working on a Project related to Object Oriented Programming. I found that it is not suitable for this kind of programming at all as you have to use a lot of external plugins to get what you actually need. Also, for a new user it is a time consuming task to get used to its GUI and other features. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Since it is provided as a free text editor, I would recommend it to be used at least once and it proves useful for those who works on scripting languages. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using Vim as my text editor for most of my projects as well as an editor for my daily coding tasks. Its syntax highlighter feature allows me to quickly find the error in my code without even compiling it online. Its download time is extremely quick and you don’t need to wait for a long time for the installation in your machine. So, it would save your time and you can concentrate on more important tasks. ### 21. Best text editor ever **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kielse N. | Development Team Manager, Computer Games, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** For people that never used before vim will be a bit odd to start, however after start using it they will love. Is a clean editor that you can use to edit conf files or building your codes/scripts. You can search and replace using some really good options and you can split the screen to edit more files at same time. You can configure it to show different color schemes for different file formats. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Its hard to find something that I dislike using vim. I use it since I started using Linux many years ago. I also used some other options like emacs, but vim is my preferred text editor. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Start leaning using a tutorial because the start is not that easy. People can be frustrated if just try by themselves because Vim is different. However, after your first steps you will love it. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I change config files for my networking systems like apache, mysql and several others. I fix some small bugs in some softwares. ### 22. The most agile of all text editors and IDE's. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge Eduardo A. | Programmer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** VIM es lean, agile, and best of all, quick as my thinking speed. Yes, using VIM I don't have to memorize commands, just think and write. Better, no mouse, so my speed increases. And as a bonus VIM is highly configurable, so it can be enhanced with abbreviations, plugins and sripts that augment VIM's features beyond a text editor, converting it into a full-fledged IDE. Auto completation, Code Intel, tree views, tabs, highlighting, emmet, themes, and more. **What do you dislike about Vim?** VIM is hard to learn, essentially it works in a different way than other text editors. So relax and take time to learn. Make routines and you'll see your own progress, which at the same time is a motivator to go further. VIM operates in modes, Insert, Visual, Replace and Normal mode are the main and always used modes. So you will have to 'change' modes. But work daily o VIM and after 6 month you'll feel comfortable. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Use it, don't get afraid of starting, VIM is for the rest of your life as programmer. Start, it's different mindset, step learning curve but it pays off after two months. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need a lean, lightweight IDE, featured to allow me to avoid repetitive and non value tasks. VIM provides a free, open source, lean, agile, easy to use and low maintenance cost. I love the fact that VIM can be installed in less than a minute and configured in 15 minutes. ### 23. More than 10 years using vim **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** Simple, fast and after you learn you be higly productive. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It's hard to learn but after you learn you never ler it go. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** You can try neovim too. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** To code golang applications ### 24. Good Linux editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** It is one of the most common editor on linux that I've been using for quite some time now, both at work and outside work. I've familiarized myself with some tricks and shortcuts to using this tool on linux that saves me plenty of time. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Kind of niche, not many users of it these days as compared to other editors. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work as a design engineer and vim is a default tool for me at work since I mostly work on the Linux environment. Vim has other subsets that are just as useful (gvi, gvim). Esay to configure and manage. ### 25. Rigid but powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** I like it, because it has so many valuable hotkeys, so it seems like we have everything on our keyboard. **What do you dislike about Vim?** I just have one problem when edit my program, that is the interface is too rigid **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a game programmer, I make games. The benefits I relized is I have everything on my keyboard, I can move cursor up down, I can insert whole line or just a word or function ### 26. Vim - Greatest Editor Ever!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajinkya N. | Senior Integration Engineer, Computer Hardware, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Great text editor with very little overhead. Very easy to integrate with other tools as well as amazing to use on Linux platforms. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There is no Autofill characteristic like Sublime Text. Also, it is not easy to find, replace and do similar operations without knowing shortcut keys. UI is not very helpful. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vim is currently being used heavily within my team for scripting and automation related tasks. It supports well for quick workarounds and editing. ### 27. Vim Offers Simplicity and Efficiency when I write something. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcel A. | Programmer, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** One of the best feature of Vim is its actually a modular text editor. You can change/edit the function in every key on your keyboard, so that it can help you type more faster and efficient. As a Web programmer, I prefer this text editor also because of its simple interface. It doesn't have a lot of button on the side and top of the screen, basically, its more like a blank white page, where you can write anything on it without getting confused or annoyed. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Because its a modular text editor, it must have a way to do setting/configuration. Vim doesn't provide you a simple and easy way to do this, instead, Vim gives you.....A blank white space.....where you can write all the function, command, and setting you desire. Its really annoying, because i cannot remember every setting on Vim. So every time I want to set something, let say I want to change font, I need to look the command on internet or their help page (which is really not an easy thing to do). **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** If you need a text editor which can make you type faster with simple interface, use Vim. I type more faster than my old text editor. As a web programmer, my productivity increase 60% with Vim. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work as a web programmer. I type a lot everyday, hundreds and thousands words a day and I also see code everyday. Vim offer a simple interface so i can understand what i write in an instant. Besides, Vim also offers a way to change the function of keys on keyboard, so I set all my main function (Copy, paste, delete, enter new line) to the Alphabet keys on keyboard. So every time i want to call those function, my hand is still in typing position. its really helps me on writing code faster and more efficient. ### 28. Great text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** The best part of vim is that it is open source and comes with a ton of power features. Some of my personal best features are - vertical selection of code block, select multiple lines, vertical/horizontal split. **What do you dislike about Vim?** vim has a steep learning curve which might be a bottleneck for new users. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Take the time to learn the features, it will be worthwile. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I write most of my software in vim. The major benefits have been the customization of the editor. ### 29. Superb text editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luiz Gonzaga d. | Senior Software Developer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** What I most like about vim it's its ability and flexibility of customizing keymaps, behaviours, writing plugins. But, most of all, it's their precise text editing mode and movements. For sure its learning curve is steep but soon enough you wish all your software would have a "vim mode" so you can use your beloved vim features outside vim. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Indeed Vim have a steep learning curve and it's look and feel are far from modern. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Maybe you'll be an Emacs guy, but certainly try Vim out. Also, have a dotfiles repo configure you vim setup automatically is also a time saver. Just search .vimrc on Github... Plenty of examples... **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a software developer for more than 12 years now and vim is still the best text editor I could find so far. I tried many IDE's, they of course have nice features, but at the end of the day what you do is edit text and for that VIM is unbeatable. ### 30. It's not UltraEdit, but it is free **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Of the free text editors, I would have to recommend Vim. While I do use UltraEdit at work, I wanted a free, open-source option to use at home. As with a lot of open-source software, Vim can be customized in a variety of ways to suit the type of work you're doing and your style. You can write all sorts of scripts to customize it as well as borrow those written by others in the very active Vim community. It is also convenient that once you have your customization set up, you can save them to a configuration file and apply them on another device very easily. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There is a sharp learning curve with Vim which I think really turns off a lot of new users. It is not intuitive, although there are a lot of guides out there to help you. It is also probably better suited for smaller projects. I know others tend to prefer Ultraedit or even Emacs for large, corporate endeavors. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Try the Cream for Vim config to avoid the initial steep learning curve. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am more of an analyst than a developer, but I do use Vim from time to time for small C# projects. I appreciate the ability to add a lot of customization and try out new configs like Cream for Vim which I have found makes the tool a little bit easier to grasp. ### 31. Highly flexible text editor for UNIX systems. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** i) Support for numerous programming languages and formats. ii) Rich plugin system iii) Runs on all linux, unix platforms. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Auto reload of files or files that change from some other place can't easily be picked up by Vim eventhough possible **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Text Editing, Programming. ### 32. A must know editor for unix user **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darma K. | Mobile Application Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** First thing is Vim is free. Vim provide fast typing and keybinding for my work. In unix filesystem, is default installed vi mode which can be used at terminal / console. So you just need to learn one keybinding. Also vim has portable configuration that can you easily edit. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Short UI for web development. I can say using vim for editing HTML is hell for me. Maybe for veteran vim user no. High learning curve for newbie just for typing, but worth the time. In my workplace, for learning vim trainee has given 2 weeks to get used with the keybindings. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** If you like an powerful editor which make you typing so fast, but has high learning cuve. Vim is good. Vim has been around internet since 1991, got a lot of reputation an user base. An extensible, and easy plugin to install. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast typing of keybindings are really helpfull. Other that that, vim can run on console which mean i can do some ftp / ssh work. ### 33. VIM --what's not to like? **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shannon D. | Software and DevOps Engineer, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** If you remember the 90s, then VIM was the cool older brother to VI. VIM is functional, allows for easy movement throughout a file, and gives you syntax highlighting. It also comes stock on most Linux distros, so what's not to like? **What do you dislike about Vim?** If you're expecting something more than a simple text editor with some syntax highlighting, you may be disappointed. I however learned to code in VIM and find it super functional. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Make sure you know what you're using it for. If you want anything fancy, look somewhere else. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're solving the problem of what software to local change files in on our Linux boxes. It's a pretty simple problem, with an even simpler solution. ### 34. The ultimate text editor, if you dedicate the time to learn it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grant A. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Love it or hate it, there really is no middle ground with Vim. It has a very steep learning curve and really relies of constant and dedicated use to become proficient in it. The point of Vim is to provide a text editor that minimizes the amount of movement your hands have to do so that you can work faster. And speed is Vim's strongest feature, once you get used to it. Vim is also extendable and has a HUGE amount of available plugins that can customize your vim to function just as well as your full featured IDE like Eclipse or Sublime Text. The amount of configuration is staggering and there's even a port of Eclipse that can be used within Vim (called Eclim). Vim is free and can be used in pretty much any Linux distro, so is essential if you want to ssh into remote environments. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It's hard to learn, and even after 2 years of using I'm still having to look up some commands. Unless you're ultra dedicated to learning new and interesting key commands your progress in using Vim will eventually plateau and you won't get any faster. Also, because it's open source, plugins can be both good and bad. Sometimes there is excellent documentation, and sometimes there's not, forcing you to look in the source code to find out how to do something. This can be both good and bad, depending on your level of curiosity. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** If you're a programmer, learn Vim. There's nothing else to it. You need to know how to use it, even if it's just a basic understanding of moving around, inserting text and saving and quitting, your life will be so much better for it. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote server administration, faster coding. ### 35. Moderate learning curve with very high payoffs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rammy K. | Freelance Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is a mode based editor for quickly and very efficiently marking up code. Expandable via plugins you'll find the default version, installed on most Linux systems (also available on Windows and Mac OS), already quite feature rich. The Vim name comes from the fact that it is an ancestor of vi (the well formed Unix editor) and the 'm' represents that it is "Visually IMproved": in its default setting Vim automatically colors your code according to syntax which makes reading what you're opening, or writing for the first time, very enjoyable. If you're ever looking at a file which is not color highlighted simply press ESC (this takes you to command mode) and then type, ":syntax on" sans the quotation marks ENTER. Colors and other settings are all highly customizable and may be stored in a .vimrc file. Google: how to use Vim & Vim Cheatsheet (which you should print out and hang next to your display for easy reference) and let the fun begin! **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim is a mode based editor which means that keyboard input produces different behavior depending upon which mode you're in. At first this can seem annoying but once you've trained your brain, it is actually speedily efficient! When you first enter into Vim press the letter 'i' (for INSERT) to go from command to edit mode and then type away. To save and exit press ESC Shift+ZZ. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Vim is well matured, widely available, and almost universally accepted by serious programmers everywhere. If you are new to Vim I highly recommend you start with Cream which overlays all the conventional keyboard shortcuts and provides a drop-down menu system so that you'll be able to do common tasks such as copy/paste from other windows into your Vim opened document using the shortcuts you're already familiar with. Cream (for Vim) is available via http://cream.sourceforge.net/ **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've written entire installation automation kits and heavy-duty data processing scripts in Vim. ### 36. old school but still great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew Y. | Software Engineer, Computer Networking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** It still stands out within the numerous IDE/editors these days. Learn to use the necessary plugins, and you are good to go. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Steep learning curve. At first it seems a bit challenging to learn all the shortcuts **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use vim for developing production level software every day. ### 37. A trusted code editor. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel S. | Desarrollador sénior, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2015 **What do you like best about Vim?** It's an editor entirely focused in being used to work efficiently and in an optimized way, specifically when using *nix systems, it has tons of keyboard shortcuts to make simple tasks quickly, it has tons of plugins and configs ready to set, it's well known, it has a large community. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It's hard to use, you need to learn and practice how to use it at least few weeks before doing something productive. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** It will be worth it. From the very beginning it will be hard to get yourself confortable with Vim and how to even edit a file, you'll eventually get to move like a ninja and code fast. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** General programing, and some text editing can be done with this one easily. ### 38. Steep learning curve, but well worth the time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah W. | Cyber Researcher, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim has an incredibly powerful plugin system, and every plugin you never knew you needed probably already exist. Due to the terminal interface, Vim can be customised by just editing your .vimrc, which can also be used to add command line functionality. I have never found anything quite as good as vim's %s (string replace) functionality, regex replace is a lifesaver in many situations, and not something that many other text editors have. **What do you dislike about Vim?** The learning curve is *very* steep - there's a joke that ^C^C^C^Z^Z is a common sequence for new vim users trying to exit the editor to type, and it holds true. It does take a while to get to grips with the new way of working, using commands instead of GUI interfaces. It also has some weird paste behaviour, sometimes pasting at your (GUI) cursor, sometimes pasting at your text-cursor, but that's just a minor nag. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** If you want a text editor, and not an operating system masquerading as an editor (looking at you, EMACS), vim is for you. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was solving my lack of a suitable all-purpose text editor - NANO is nice and all, but it's just not powerful enough for programming or power user-type stuff. Hence, I went to vim, and after the aforementioned learning curve drastically sped up my development time. ### 39. Most powerful and lightweight editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is a lightweight editor but very extensible through plugins. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Vim could be better if had builtin support to async jobs. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly daily programming and writing blog posts, reports and other textual contents. ### 40. An great tool to edit code and **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caio C. | Desenvolvedor web e professor, Writing and Editing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** The macros and motions, vim has a good documentation about mappings keys too. This will let you excited! **What do you dislike about Vim?** The viml, (used to create vim plugins), the viml is poor of features. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** You need to learning about motions and macros basically. This features increasing the mouse-less and increase your speed to type some code. Vim have syntax highlight and I have created a good theme for. Just you need to use vim is a simple terminal or terminal emulator. Vim is extremely highlighting, so you don't need to spend a lot of memory to use it. Please considering to search about vim on google, you will see a lot of people and great community of vim talking about it. Vim is free! **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** All of my projects I have used vim. I can customizing highly the editor and use it in an specific project. ### 41. Very Light **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin R. | Game Programmer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** It has all the feature that text editor needs! split screen, auto-tab / space. All of the VIM feature can be be accessed using hot key. And the most important thing VIM can do visual row block. I never seen other text editor can make feature like this. It can make programming works more easily and fast! And also VIM can insert multiple line in on time... VIM is very simple, light, efficient , and can do some macro. VIM default keyboard commands is also make we can type more fast, like moving the visual row by alphabets "IJKL" it make near other command that commonly used in the VIM. it also has custom home and end function on the keyboard. VIM is commonly used in various area of ubuntu server. we can edit easily server setting or config if you understand VIM. Mayber at first using VIM is a little difficult but it has a prize that allow us to easily config in server. And the most important things is, VIM is FREE **What do you dislike about Vim?** Lack of Plugin. This is the only one that I don't really on VIM. But basically this text editor is very light because there is no option to install any plugin or other that will make this text editor become slow. Other than this, i think VIM is a perfect text editor that already used many people to do some programming and other things. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** VIM is FREE, light and simple. It has all feature that text editor needs. ### 42. A wonderful tool that even after decades since it was created remains one of the favorite editors **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John R. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** If you have ever had to ssh into a unix server, you will probably have been faced with the necessity of editing some files. At this point some people choose simple editors, which are fine for minimal changes, but there is an almost ubiquitous alternative, vi. Vim is the successor of vi, so you will be able to find it almost anywhere. It runs on iOS, Windows, Mac OS X, Unix systems, pretty much everywhere. I like investing time into a tool that I will be able to use almost everywhere. Even most IDEs offer a vi-bindings plugin, including Qt Creator, Visual Studio, IntelliJ Idea, to name a few. The ease and speed with which I can edit code truly makes using vi a wonderful investment. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There are a couple of minor issues while using Gvim on Windows, but they are easily dealt with. For instance, line-ending differ from one operating system to the other, but having some special settings in the .vimrc file takes care of this problem. One other issue is that even though IDEs try their best to provide vim bindings with the corresponding plugin, there are always issues, since they have default bindings that collide with some useful vi commands, for instance Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V. This makes you have to choose which bindings to keep, for many different configurations which is a bit painful. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Having a modal editor is a different paradigm. The easiest way to get good at it is just to use it and run vimtutor. I recently introduced an old coworker to it and he was able to appreciate the benefits of it within a week of starting to use it. Also, perhaps switch the Caps Lock key with the Escape key. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enhanced productivity and less wrist pain. Both of these I find huge benefits in the long run, although it might be hard to justify the time it takes the average user to get "good enough" at using Vim. ### 43. Increases my productivity and code development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian L. | Software Engineer II, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** The customizability and plugin support that lets you unlock powerful text editing features. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Steep learning curve, but sometimes the best tools take time to learn. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Take the time to learn it. It's a steep learning curve, but the productivity rewards you reap after learning it can't be compared. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I enjoy using VIM to navigate through text files and not have to use my keyboard. It helps me write code faster and also lets me navigate through files quickly for a headless version of *nix systems. ### 44. The ultimate Unix/Llinux text editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tihomir M. | Senior Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Installed by default on every Unix/Linux system. After you learn how to use it, it's an incredibly powerful text editor. Handles huge files without any issues. A lot of useful plugins. Everyone calling them self a programmer or an sysadmin should know how to use it. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It has a steep learning curve and the creators of VIm should figure a way how to lower the barrier of entry, to make it easier for the beginners. Some things like code completion should be supported out of the box. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reading and editing text files extremely easily. Can be used for development but it lacks some of the advanced feature present in modern IDEs. ### 45. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Easy to use. Quick find and replace. Takes input commands for data mining. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Copy and pasting is not very efficient. Fonts can be better. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** To data mine tons of data in text files using commands. Saves time, takes less space. ### 46. Great Text Editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saka Mahendra A. | Website Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is very good text editor. Vim also can be used in linux system. Vim can make your work become more faster. Because Vim use vintage that can be used to faster your job. You don't need to use arrow key and never leave your hand position. Very perfect text editor if you want to speed up your job. **What do you dislike about Vim?** There is no autocomplete for HTML or other coding system. Like if I want to create HTML file I must build it from scratch. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** You should try to use Vim. It's greate for your daily codding life. You can learn it using forum or from friend. There are already many people in this world that already use Vim **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Vim in my training program. It's very great text editor. If you want to learn about vintage you can just learn it using VIM. I use it in my daily programming life. And this vintage is very great. ### 47. Good tools are hard to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher K. | Lead Web Developer, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Vim is available anywhere and does anything. By taking an inconvenient perspective to text manipulation, vim unlocks several advanced techniques which are ultimately more effective than low hanging fruit. **What do you dislike about Vim?** Part of the unique angle it provides is the lack of anything familiar. There is no mouse support and transitional installations don't even support arrow key navigation. It's exceedingly hard to teach others unless they're dying to know how. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Use vimtutor. It's a very straightforward guide that will get you going in about an hour. Also consider that, since it runs on remote SSH sessions, you can use it on your phone. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing files on remote servers with vim means you don't need to transfer over FTP, command line tools like git are always close at hand, and edits can be FAST. ### 48. Vim knowledge will pay you back, albeit some effort and patience is required **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Useful and available both in a desktop (Mac, Windows) and in a terminal environment to edit files. Very powerful commands to perform quickly complex file manipulation operations. Large knowledge base available on line to help you solve text editing tasks. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It requires some time to memorize its commands and learn its way of operation. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** Invest some time on learning Vim basics, and you will be paid back in spades! Of course it will take some more efforts on your side to learn Vim commands, and sample most of its features, but you'll gain a powerful tool to edit multiple files on multiple OS platforms. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main business problems solved by Vim are related with text file editing: source code files, markdown documents. Main benefits are related to the ability to execute quickly, even complex multiple file manipulations (search and replace, multiple files editing, sequence of editing actions). ### 49. Vim - Simple, Powerful and Classical text Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shiva S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** - Free, Open source and best vi editor for Linux. - Vim is popular among developers. We can built add-ons or plugins using vim to control many other software and programming tool. - Vim is completely based on keyboard commands where each one is distinguished by using keys like alternate, command or control. - Special feature of vim includes completion, comparison, merging of files, also extended to regular expressions, support of plugins. - If we keep on practicing with the shortcuts of vim editor, we will become a true programmer. - It is readily available on all platforms (LINUX, Debian, BSD, Windows). - Vim is popularly known as developers shortcut. **What do you dislike about Vim?** - Vim editing commands are not easy to learn. - It consumes large amount of time to be a master, by the time which we may lose our interest in Vim editor. - If you are beginner, It demands a lot of practice. - You have to learn the command grammar and train your muscle memory over time. - Since it is a old editor the recent graduates have no idea about vim. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** - If you wanted to be a programmer, Vim is the first step. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Being a Computer science student, I started using vim recently. Within a short span of time I have addicted to Vim and its been my default editor far all my projects, temporary files and my internship work. - Benefits: More you learn, More you explore. Ease our workflow, recipe for a conserved programmer. ### 50. Best terminal editor for coders **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit B. | Student Assistant, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Vim?** Its really great and simple tool for people who uses linux a lot and are good with remembering shortcuts as you don't have UI buttons in vim. It is a really useful editor. Best thing about using VIM is that it comes preinstalled on most of os so you don't need to install anything. **What do you dislike about Vim?** It is bit difficult to learn and remember all the commands like how to save and quit or save without quit. it does not have any UI buttons or anything you have to remember the commands but Once you learn it then it becomes really handy. **Recommendations to others considering Vim:** I will recommend vim to all the companies who are developing a unix based tool or are working on something related to operating systems. **What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are small team of application developer for Ubuntu operating system and vim has made editing code really simpler. ## Vim Discussions - [Is vim any good?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-vim-any-good) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [what is the fastest way to use VIM](https://www.g2.com/discussions/52195-what-is-the-fastest-way-to-use-vim) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is Vim used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vim-used-for) - 1 comment - [What can Vim be used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-can-vim-be-used-for) - 1 comment - [View Vim pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vim/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+18%3A35%3A13+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=cdf5a763-cba9-47d4-a858-d07ceab90580&secure%5Btoken%5D=c79002aee2cdb3b24b5cd9404b4294b5ad343a6dd1609f39126261b323e87bda&format=llm_user) ## Vim Features **Data Management** - Health Data Exchange - Regulation & Compliance - User Access **Operations Management** - Third-Party Software Integrations - System Interoperability - Integration Services - Interface Status Updates - Operational Support **Agentic AI - Healthcare Integration Engines** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction ## Top Vim Alternatives - [NexHealth](https://www.g2.com/products/nexhealth/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (98 reviews) - [Redox](https://www.g2.com/products/redox/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (35 reviews) - [Iguana](https://www.g2.com/products/iguana/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (40 reviews)