Introduction Next Previous Contents 1. Introduction Vim stands for 'Vi Improved'. Vi is the most popular and powerful editors in the Unix world. A good editor improves programmer productivity. Vim supports color syntax highlighting of program code and also emphasises text using different fonts like normal, bold or italics.
Programmers can read the code much more rapidly as the code syntax is colored and highlighted.
See 'man less'. Note that the RPM packages for Redhat Linux use a Motif interface. If you have installed the GTK libraries on your system, consider compiling Vim from the source code for a clean GUI interface. It will download the latest version of vim, install it, configure it. The first package listed is vim, the standard editor, compiled with X11 support, vim-rt is the vim runtime, it holds all the syntax and help files.