What Does Vim Mean?
Vim, which stands for Vi Improved, is a popular open source text editor. It is a clone of the Unix text editor Vi. Originally written for the Amiga in 1988, it is available for almost every operating system. Vim is particularly popular with Linux users.
Techopedia Explains Vim
Vim is a text editor originally written by Bram Moolenar. The editor is a clone of Vi, a Unix text editor written by Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the late 1970s. Vi originally appeared as part of the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix, or BSD.
