Rarely on these pages have I read such a fluff piece! Al Williams’ coverage of Emacs versus Vim was an affront to the type of in-depth coverage our Hackaday readers deserve. While attempting to be ...

IDEs have surrounded developers since long, but the older generation of developers used to write their code right from the terminal window. Although IDEs increase productivity and made it easier to ...

If you want to improve productivity on any piece of frequently used software there’s a simple solution: ditch the mouse and use keyboard shortcuts instead. Plenty of you already know to hit control-c ...

The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl. Bram Moolenaar, the developer behind Vim, has ...

Most Linux users know vim as a text editor that descended from vi. It can also function as a tool for encrypting text files. In this post, we examine how this is done and how to reverse the process.

We'll show you how to make a graceful exit, rather than just unplugging your PC.

Today, most of us use graphical text editors, but many developers still use vi, or its modern clone Vim, or Emacs, and they're as passionate about their choice of editors as ever. I'm not sure why ...

[Screenshot: Open Vim] A couple of years ago, I took an Introduction to Software Development class, in which we covered Unix and used Vim to write a few simple programs. I didn’t really get the point ...

The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl. Bram Moolenaar, the developer behind Vim, has ...