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Using VI or VIM for Linux – making your editor a much richer experience

March 4, 2010 by Kenny Smith

Vi is to the Linux/Unix world as ‘edit’ is to MS-DOS. If you use Vi, you are probably aware of vim, which a more robust tool, but very similar. I won’t dive into the whole history – goto Wikipedia for that. Unless you have specifically installed Vim on Ubuntu or modified the .vimrc file on … Read more

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