Digital Learning Educational Innovation Across Northwestern

vi and its successor vim (vi iMproved) are a powerful command line text editors used in Unix environments. They are commonly used by programmers, data scientists, and researchers working in command line environments. Being a modal editor, different tasks are accomplished within different modes in vi/vim. This may seem complicated in the beginning, but frequent users do not even need to take their hands off the keyboard while editing text or coding. All researchers who are editing texts and coding in their daily routine are welcome.