How to Enable Syntax Highlighting in Vi/Vim Editor
One of the easiest ways to boost the readability and context of the text in a configuration file or your source code for various programing languages, is by using a text editor that supports...
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How to Exit a File in Vi / Vim Editor in Linux
In this article, we will learn how to exit Vi/Vim (after referred to as Vim) text editor using simple commands. In a previous article, we explained a simple tip on how to save a...
How to Save a File in Vi / Vim Editor in Linux
It is true that learning Vi/Vim – a well-known text editor in the Linux ecosystem, is not as easy as learning Nano or Emacs, as it requires a little effort which is worthwhile. Many...
How to Password Protect a Vim File in Linux
Vim is a popular, feature-rich and highly-extensible text editor for Linux, and one of its special features is support for encrypting text files using various crypto methods with a password. In this article, we...
10 Reasons Why You Should Use Vi/Vim Text Editor in Linux
While working with Linux systems, there are several areas where you’ll need to use a text editor including programming/scripting, editing configuration/text files, to mention but a few. There are several remarkable text editors you’ll...
How to Make ‘Vim Editor’ as Bash-IDE Using ‘bash-support’ Plugin in Linux
An IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is simply a software that offers much needed programming facilities and components in a single program, to maximize programmer productivity. IDEs put forward a single program in which all...
spf13-vim – The Ultimate Distribution for Vim Editor
spf13-vim is a cross platform and highly customizable assortment of vim plugins and various resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim. It works in Linux, Windows and MacOS X plus other Unix-like systems, it adheres...
Vim 8.0 Is Released After 10 Years – Install on Linux Systems
Vi has been around for a long, developed in around 1976, it offered users traditional yet powerful features such as an effective editing interface, terminal control and many more. However, it lacked certain captivating...
8 Interesting ‘Vi/Vim’ Editor Tips and Tricks for Every Linux Administrator – Part 2
In the previous article of this series we reviewed 7 tips and tricks to add to your vi/m skills set. Besides the reasons given previously, learning how to use effectively a text editor in...
Learn Useful ‘Vi/Vim’ Editor Tips and Tricks to Enhance Your Skills – Part 1
The need to learn how to use text editors in Linux is indisputable. Every system administrator and engineer deal with configuration (plain text) files on a daily basis, and most times this is done...
