Vim is a text editor for Windows that takes its cue from Vi text editor for Unix. The program has since been improved significantly from the features available with Vi. The keyboard can be used to execute all available commands instead of hunting through the menu system. This speeds up your typing because you do not have to take your hands off the keyboard to take a program action. The editor is for plain text and cannot be used for layout like a Word processor would. It is more like Notepad+ instead.

Vim Key Features:

• Text editor with Vi text editor features
• Has the same commands as the Vi Unix text editor and more
• Not a Word processor so cannot do layouts
• Syntax highlighting
• Line numbering
• Can be run using keyboard hotkeys and without using menus directly
• Similar to Notepad+

Vim is a text editor that is more similar to Unix text editors than Windows ones.