Tutorials: Elevate Your Terminal Workflow: Installing and Customizing Vim Like a Pro(2026)
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X. Choosing the Right Vim Variant on Ubuntu When installing Vim via apt , Ubuntu provides several distinct packages tailored to different environments and workflows. While they all share the core Vim editing engine, their interfaces and compiled feature sets differ: vim : The standard, terminal-based version of Vim. It includes all the essential features and multi-language syntax highlighting, making it the go-to choice for local development and general system administration. vim-gtk3 : The full Graphical User Interface (GUI) version of Vim (often launched as gvim ). It uses the modern GTK3 toolkit, provides standalone windows with menus, and offers seamless system clipboard integration ( +clipboard ), allowing you to copy-paste easily between Vim and other apps. vim-motif : An alternative GUI version com...