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Vim

The first command-line text editor we will discuss is perhaps the most popular for Linux: Vim. Vim is derived from the term Vi Improved, as it is an updated clone of the Unix editor Vi. It was created and is still maintained by Bram Moolenaar, who first released Vim publicly in 1991. Vim (or, on very old systems, Vi) should be present on all Unix or Unix-like machines you will encounter.

Vim is considered a hard-to-learn tool. This is mainly caused by the fact it works very differently from text editors that most people are used to. However, once the initial learning curve is over, many agree that a lot of actions can be done in Vim much more quickly than in a normal text editor (such as Microsoft's Notepad++).

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