Most people who are getting started with Linux or UNIX today already know how to use graphical WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors, with heavy use of the mouse, icons and pull-down menus.

Modern shells support command-line editing for efficient recall and correction of commands. Command-line editing is more efficient than using the shell's history mechanism. Shells like KornShell, Bash ...

Vim is an extremely powerful editor with a user interface based on Bill Joy's almost 30-year-old vi, but with many new features. The features that make Vim so versatile also sometimes makes it ...