Lastly, there is Vim.
- Ed was first.
- Then Vi came along.
- Followed by Vim
- Next, Emacs and XEmacs appeared.
- Besides, several others.
Vim and GVim (it's GUI version) is also quite useful. Available for almost any platform. A small executable and still extremely powerful. Created by Bill Joy.
What is Vim?Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
Despite what the above comic suggests, Vim can be configured to work in a very simple (Notepad-like) way, called evim or Easy Vim.
Vim Web site
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