Vi


Aug. 10, 2023

Bloody VIM

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as “vi” with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.

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You will encounter vi/vim as the incomprehensible text editor that pops up by default when you need to edit something in your sysadmin journey. Perhaps you issued the command to edit your Ansible vault, perhaps you forgot to add a message to a commit. It’s going to be unavoidable.