Vim

Vim (vi improved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program. It is an improved clone of Bill Joy's vi. Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga and released a version to the public in 1991. Vim is designed for use both from a command-line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface. Since its release for the Amiga, cross-platform development has made it available on many other systems. In 2018, it was voted the most popular editor amongst Linux Journal readers; in 2015 the Stack Overflow developer survey found it to be the third most popular text editor, and in 2019 the fifth most popular development environment.

See Vim on Wikipedia.

Getting started

To use Vim, run the vim command in the VS Code (Ctrl + `) terminal:

vim

Screenshot: Vim running in the VS Code terminal

Keywords

• vim
• vi
• text editor
• terminal
• command line interface
• cli