what exactly is vim's advance [closed]

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I've not used VIM as an editor before, but I'm curious about it and about why people use command-line tools like VIM and GDB. I'm curious to know whether people think it's better than tools like Visual Studio.

Could people who do use it share it's best features? This might increase my motivation to learn it. The first IDE开发者_运维技巧 I ever used as a kid was Visual Basic. I'm curious to know whether people who use VIM now used it when they first stared using computers?

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Many people use vim as an IDE. There are a large set of scripts to add IDE like functionality, and you can create your own scripts too.

People also really like the way you can minimize keystrokes and avoid the mouse. So much, in fact, that things like http://vimgolf.com/ exist to see how few keystrokes you can use to do some sort of edit.

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Vim is terse, concise, and optimized for people with only two hands.

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(Deleted the "vi is not an IDE" - don't want to start an editor war)

You will find a vi clone on virtually every Unix/Linux system out there - so being comfortable with using vi is a useful skill - the Mac includes a vi clone too.

Its not so useful on Windows as its not there by default - but Notepad whilst awful is a passable editor in an emergency. I wouldn't install vim on Windows to have a decent editor, I would either use Visual Studio if installed or install Notepad++

And yes, vi was the first editor I learned to use - but I would normally use a decent IDE, but knowing basic vi commands is useful.