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Vim

Vim is a text editor, available on Windows and Linux: syntax highlighting.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Vim is a text editor, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: syntax highlighting.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “The ubiquitous text editor” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Many new features have been added: multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, spell checking, filename completion, block operations, script language, etc.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Vim is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (Vim) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It is not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (source code, publisher, licence, platforms, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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