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<h1 id="about-vim">About Vim</h1>
<h6>Logan</h6>
<p>Vim is a text editor, like Visual Studio Code or Notepad, but it is aimed at power users. It is a terminal-based editor, which means it does not have the UI of a graphical editor like Notepad. This makes its learning curve a little steep, but it is very worth it - editing code in Vim is significantly faster than a Graphical Editor.</p>
<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>In 1988, Bram Moolenaar created a new text editor called Vim (which stands for "vi improved"). Vim was based on the vi editor, which was created in the 1970s to improve developer efficiency over command line tools like <code>ed</code>.</p>
<p>Vim saw its first public release in 1991. Since then, it has undergone significant development, and it is now available on almost every platform - MacOS, Linux, Windows, and even the . In recent years, Vim has gained popularity as a powerful alternative to traditional text editors like Emacs, Sublime Text, and Visual Studio Code. Its large community of volunteer developers has built a large collection of plugins that are free and open source - meaning anyone can contribute to their development.</p>
<h2 id="why-use-vim">Why Use Vim?</h2>
<p>Vim is a very efficient text editor. It is designed to make editing code as fast and easy as possible. Vim is also highly configurable, so you can customize it to work exactly the way you want it to.</p>
<h3 id="never-leave-the-keyboard">Never Leave The Keyboard</h3>
<p>Vim is designed to be used entirely from the keyboard without taking time to shift the hand to the mouse. This may seem strange at first, but it is actually very efficient. Once you get used to it, you will find that you can edit code much faster with Vim than with a mouse.</p>
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<p>Vim adheres to the UNIX philosophy of "doing one thing and doing it well" - meaning that Vim is very good at editing text, but compared to programs like Emacs, its extensibility is not as big a priority.</p>
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<p>Vim is highly configurable - it even has its own programming language, VimScript, allowing users to change literally anything about the editor. Keyboard shortcuts, colors, and even the way the text is displayed are all options that are available through VimScript.</p>
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<p>Vim is available on almost any platform. This includes Windows, macOS, Linux, and even Android - meaning you can use Vim no matter where you are.</p></div>
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