Vim

Vim

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Vim	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	Vim is an open source configurable text editor.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Open Source Verified User Chose Vim Notepad++, while being a great editor, is very easy to get familiar with. However, being a serious developer, having the most efficient tool is much more important than having an easy tool. Vim’s speed is very much faster than that of notepad++. Moreover, the amount of plugins … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vim I prefer Vim simply because it's as simple as apps like Notepad, Notepad++, or gedit, but as feature rich as Microsoft Visual Studio. The startup time is quick, the response time is quick, it never freezes. Vim always "just works." Vim can be downloaded in a few seconds (if … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vim I spent some time learning emacs at one point and found it to have a much larger surface area of required knowledge before being productive. They are similar in that the interface is somewhat "hidden" behind keybindings and commands, but Vim's modal model makes more sense to me … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vim I think it comes down to usability (and frankly, just preference). There's an old adage that Emacs is a good Operating System with a poor Text Editor! Jokes aside, when looking at different text editors, such as Emacs or Nano, Vim is the one that is usually always preferred … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vim It is hard to compare Vim to many other packages in the developer's stack of tools. It mainly does one thing, edit text, and does it better than anything else. For instance, you can't really compare it to Visual Studio Code because VS actually has a Vim plug-in so you can … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Garnhart Research & Development: Product Intern in Product Management at Bandwidth Inc. (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Vim Vim is a text editor that strives for simplicity. It does that well, but when you need something at the next level, take a look at the above two. Visual Studio Code is a fantastic, free code editor that makes most of my workflow easy. Incentivized Helpful? Jake Tolbert Director of Development - Data Services at Millikin University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Vim Vim's keybindings are a lot more complex than Notepad++. With that, comes a whole bunch of capability that Notepad++ just can't match. Emacs is comparable, in terms of capabilities--because Vim is built into so many unix systems, I chose to learn it instead of Emacs. Knowing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vim I use Vim for specific use cases and others for their own purposes but all of them are being used at my work every day. Vim has its pros like it's free/open source, has a mouse free interface, is lightweight and fast, and once learned is hard to forget. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Vim
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (9 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	6.0 (5 ratings)