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 ...

These 2 Tools Are Command-Line Editors Let’s begin by explaining what nano and vim are not. Although they let you edit text, they are not word processors like LibreOffice Writer or Google Docs.

Learn the basics for using Emacs and vi text editors for your e-mail, Web design and programming needs in Linux. Written by Bruce Stewart, Contributor Feb. 8, 2001, 12:30 a.m. PT ...

If you’re searching for info related to the VI editor, this article is for you. So, what’s VI editor? VI is a text editor that’s screen-oriented and the most popular in the Linux world. The reasons ...

Take the confusion out of switching between insert and command modes in vi's Linux text editor. Written by Bruce Stewart, Contributor Feb. 8, 2001, 12:30 a.m. PT ...

If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux systems ...

Still, I’d prefer to find a text editor that’s meant to run on Linux. After my article was posted, readers offered a slew of suggestions for replacement editors.

Learning Vim, and the vi editor upon which it’s based, is something of a techie rite of passage. Once you know it, you can fly through text using only keyboard commands at a speed that will give ...

Vim has been my editor of choice since 1998, about a year after I started using Linux as my main desktop operating system. I’ve used it to write several thousand articles and many, many lines of ...