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Use Vim abbreviations to replace text you type often, such as signatures, code blocks, typos, or even long expressions, in your text editor or Linux command line.
Text editors
As the name implies, text editors are software applications for writing and editing in plain text. Because text doesn't contain things like paragraph or text formatting or metadata (as you'd find in something like a word processing application), text editors are often used for writing code. Commonly used text editors include Vi/Vim, Emacs, and Nano.
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Are you getting everything you need out of your text editor? Read Enable Sysadmin's recent articles about Linux text editors to find out what you're missing.
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Learn how to work with multiple files, comment several lines at once, write a macro to generate a number list, and more.
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Kakoune is a modern text editor that incorporates ideas from recent editors as well as Vi and Vim.
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Ed is one of the oldest, smallest, and most powerful text editors available.
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Once you've committed Vi's keyboard shortcuts to muscle memory, watch how fast you work.
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