8cc.vim is a C compiler that exists as pure Vimscript. Is it small? It sure is! How about fast? Absolutely not! Efficient? Also no. But does it work and is it neat? You betcha! Vimscript itself was ...

One of the greatest productivity gains you can make is to type less and navigate through your code faster. VsVim, written by Jared Parsons, is an extension for Visual Studio 2010 and later which will ...

Vim is an extremely powerful editor with a user interface based on Bill Joy's almost 30-year-old vi, but with many new features. The features that make Vim so versatile also sometimes makes it ...

The Vim text editor was first released to the public on November 2, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. Although it was originally designed as a vi clone for the Amiga, it was soon ported to other ...

To exit vi or vim without saving changes, press Esc a few times to enter Command mode, then type :q! and hit Enter. To exit vi or vim and commit your changes, press the Escape key to ensure you're in ...

IDEs have surrounded developers since long, but the older generation of developers used to write their code right from the terminal window. Although IDEs increase productivity and made it easier to ...

Vim and nano are command-line text editors that run in a terminal rather than a graphical user interface (GUI). Vim and nano have a similar appearance but differ greatly in functionality and ...

The Vim text editor is not the only piece of ancient software still popular today. After all, Microsoft Word was first released in 1983, a full eight years before Vim. But today’s Word bears little ...

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Most Linux users know vim as a text editor that descended from vi. It can also function as a tool for encrypting text files. In this post, we examine how this is done and how to reverse the process.