Vim editor stands for 'Vi Improved'. Vi is the most popular and powerful editor in the Unix world. A good editor will improve the productivity of the programmer. Vim supports color syntax highlighting of program code and also different fonts like normal or bold.
To use Vim install the following rpm packages on linux -
rpm -i vim*.rpm OR do this - rpm -i vim-enhanced*.rpm rpm -i vim-X11*.rpm rpm -i vim-common*.rpm rpm -i vim-minimal*.rpm
rpm -qa | grep ^vim | awk '{print "rpm -ql " $1 }' | /bin/sh | less
For other flavors of unix download the source code file
zcat vim.tar.gz | tar -xvf - cd vim-5.5/src ./configure --enable-gui=motif make make install
For Windows 95/NT, download zip file and install clicking on setup.