The command vim starts the console version of the editor. In this version, you edit inside the terminal window in which you executed the command. The gvim command creates its own window. This second ...

Vi is a powerful text editor included with most Linux systems, even embedded ones. Sometimes you'll have to edit a text file on a system that doesn't include a friendlier text editor, so knowing ...

In vi you can set options to change the editor's behavior using the ex :set command. For example, the search commands are normally case-sensitive; to change this use the :set ignorecase or :set ic ...

A high-severity bug impacting two popular command-line text editing applications, Vim and Neovim, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands. Security researcher Armin Razmjou warned ...

now, we have AIX boxes, and when i land on one, its ksh, and no arrow keys. so i have to use vi editing commands on the command line, which i think is overkill and senseless.

I am writing a small crash course for vi/vim for our staff here, and I realized two things: 1. How little vi they knew in general 2. How little vi I knew changed since the 1990s I am having a ...

After more than a decade, the vi, or Vim, editor is getting a major update.