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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/19/2022

"Vim - Powerful Terminal Editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Vim?

Extensions for vim, Shortcuts that make life easier while developing. Ability to have multiple panes. Text Manipulations. Very efficient lightweight tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

The learning curve for the new user is high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hiteshi Jain .

Senior Applied Scientist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/21/2021

"Vim review"

4/5

What do you like best about Vim?

Vim is an open source editing tool built to enable a very efficient text editing. The good thing about it is it handles most file times and is especially usefull for the programmers. It's quickly accessible from the command line Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

It's not very handy to a non-linux based users unlike notepad. Though is a good tool for the programmers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abdullah K.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/27/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Vim - Great CLI Based Text Editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Vim?

You can easily edit files like code files, text files, etc, via the CLI terminal. You can edit files on servers from the terminal in place. It is a good text editor to be used by the server admins for text editing via terminal. The best thing about that is that you can edit the code files on the servers by connecting to them via the terminal via SSH without the need of downloading and re-uploading from our local system. It is a great tool for Linux admins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

It is hard to navigate through the file either we want to search a text or to reach some text. It is not that easy to edit text on that tool. This tool can never be the best choice for text editing via GUI as it lacks a lot of features like text replacement, formatting, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Vim:

If you're looking for an editor that is based on CLI and wants to use it via the terminal to edit any kind of textual file, it is a recommended tool, especially for Linux users. I will also recommend this tool to those users who want to do text editing via terminal locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solving the problem of editing the code files inside the servers by connecting to them via the terminal via SSH without the need of downloading and re-uploading from our local system. We can edit the text in place in a file while working via the terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

C B.

Sr Systems Admin

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/5/2021

"Vim is a powerful editor for those in the know!"

5/5

What do you like best about Vim?

Vim is universally available across all distributions of Linux that I have used. The tool is powerful and useful for editing files, configuration files, and coding bash scripts. Vi is incredibly powerful in being able to identify issues in files, highlighting text for different languages and basic file editing. I love it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

The interface is a bit hard to get used to. The tool is very old and retains backwards compatibility. Sometimes the server is not setup to handle the cursor keys which can make the experience interesting for sure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Vim:

Some people start out using VIM may consider using NANO first, but it is not as widely available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having a tool that is available on almost ANY linux distribution is VERY helpful because you know it is always going to be there for you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Varsha R.

Incident Response Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/20/2021

"Complicated usage"

1.5/5

What do you like best about Vim?

Vim is the best way to edit documents on remote terminals or unix OSes without GUI. It does have shortcuts that let you start editing, make changes and save them. The vim is an old, error free way of handling documents of any type on terminal only OS deployments like the test/production environment. The command is a simple one line with keyboard shortcuts for saving or canceling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

Vim makes everything complicated on Linux/Unix systems. Gedit or subl is a much better option if there is GUI (like on Ubuntu). The user interface on Linux terminals while using Vim is very difficult to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Vim:

It's easier to give access to GUI for the remote Linux system rather than force users to resort to Vim. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vim helps solve the main issue with remote terminal only linux systems and lets users edit documents even those that need administrator access (using sudo). That has to be a major advantage. Vim is also the oldest player in the market that provides a solution like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bushra M.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/14/2021

"Best and easy to use text Editor for linux user"

5/5

What do you like best about Vim?

.Very lightweight

.Code editing is fast

. Already installed on Linux OS

. Customizable we can change it according to our ease Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

. There is no GUI debugger

.Error chances are more because there is no syntax checker or spell checker.

.From learning point of view it seems difficult to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/25/2021

"As simple as it can get"

5/5

What do you like best about Vim?

It is very simple to start and view any text-type document, edit, save. Done.

VIM is always one of the first applications I install on a new system deployment. It has become one of my most essential tools to use regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

Some features like line count do not come on by default. If only this came on by default it would make the application completely perfect! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Vim:

Install it right away. It can become a very essential tool for you to use on your daily work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am monitoring documents directly from the console. Vim makes it easy to proof them quickly.

I can easily modify important files very quickly without the need of doing an ftp connection, opening the file on an IDE, and then re-uploading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

jay m.

Senior Associate Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/27/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Old is gold type of IDE"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Vim?

easy to learn UI is different than others, but the main thing about VIM is it's already present in all the Linux machines as a default, the bottom bar is very good it shows the line number and everything which is very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

Little hard to learn at the beginning as the syntax of language used does not provide IntelliSense Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Genesis Alberto G.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/17/2021

"Vim changed my life"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Vim?

I love to use the terminal for all my daily tasks, included to edit code in vim. I like the simplicity, the modal way between reach and edit the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

the customization could be hard sometimes due to the different terminals (I have macOS and Linux devices) . So the color theme may vary too much.

Also, it's hard copy-paste to the system clipboard and the type checking for languages like typescript isn't the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SRIJAN C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/6/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Vim Good for Speed Editing but not great in development of projects"

3/5

What do you like best about Vim?

The best thing about vim is that it is a lightweight code text editor that will allow speed editing and is based on mac terminal so it's nice to use, with awesome plugins available it makes the code editiing even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vim?

The disliking features of Vim is that it doesn't have an autocomplete feature and no proper text wrapping features unlike other idle text editors, no proper GUI debugger is also present in this code text editor, and also the key bindings for the new users might be hectic to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Vim:

While using vim I would like to advise that users must first learn the key bindings as it will initially be very difficult to memorize the key bindings and work smoothly on the code base with efficiency. Then they will be able to relate to the Linux environment and will get accustomed to the vim text editor. Then they can work on different projects and will not require a long loading time. The text editor will be a very good text editor for beginners as well as for pro editors as those who are designing big projects and will increase the scalability of the project. It will be easily digestible to the users and can make students and developers understand the code.Copying/pasting using multiple buffers.

Searching and mass replacing, with the option to use regular expressions and select distinct areas without annoying pop-up windows that hide the results themselves. Multiple ways to perform batch/repetitive jobs. Efficient handling of huge files. Handling the code as logical segments, rather than just a series of characters. This allows very fast navigation, jumping to marks, specific lines, code blocks with minimal effort. Recognizing numbers by their value and not just by their alphabetical display (ie, when sorting/inc/decreasing).

Diff-ing files, side by side. Script customizations and add-ons. OK, that’s somewhat advanced, but there are so many resources out there on the internet that you hardly ever have to write a script on your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vim solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem I am currently solving with vim is regarding an algorithmic problem where I was supposed to find the points that are present on the plane with lie in a bounded region with region coordinates provided.

The vim helped me in quick editing of the code as Visual Studio Code might take time in loading whereas the Vim code editor quickly loads up and thus enables us to edit quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.