Introduction Next Previous Contents 1. Introduction Vim editor stands for 'Vi Improved'. Vi is the most popular and powerful editor in the Unix world. A good editor will improve the productivity of the programmer. Vim supports color syntax highlighting of program code and also emphasises 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'. It will go download the lastest version of vim, install it, configure it, and erase the .deb file it downloaded. 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. Where Vim version is 5.6. The VIM should point to where-ever you installed the vim56 directory.