Vim

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Description
Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to vi. It can be used to edit all kinds of plain text. It is especially useful for editing programs.
Modulefile
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Documentation
If you are completely new to vim, we recommend running vimtutor which provides an automated tutorial.
Vim also has an excellent built-in help facility --- just type :help inside vim.
Vim homepage
VIM Cheat sheet
VIM Quick Reference Card
HTML Cheat sheet
PDF Cheat sheet
Another HTML cheat sheet
Tips
  • :help is your friend
  • :w saves the changes you've made
  • :q! gets you out without saving any changes you have made
  • If you don't like the text coloring that happens for some source code files, :syn off will turn it off.
Usage
$ vimtutor
$ vim
$ vi