Vim

Edit text files

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Vim in Breadstick

Breadstick note

Vim runs in Breadstick's Terminal, and Esc, which Vim needs all the time, is on the key bar above the on-screen keyboard; with a physical keyboard, Escape reaches Vim as on a PC. GVim, the version with a window of its own, has its own page in this catalog.

Breadstick runs Debian's own vim package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so Vim should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. It is an interactive program that runs inside a terminal rather than in a window of its own: in Breadstick's Terminal, or in any terminal window on the Linux desktop, and it needs no Desktop or Floating session running.

Commands it gives you

  • vim
  • vi
  • vimdiff
  • vim.basic

Type one in Breadstick's Terminal to run it.

Terminal text editors run in Breadstick's Terminal. With a physical keyboard, keys such as Escape reach them as they do on a PC. More in the docs: The Terminal.

About Vim

From Debian's package description

Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.

Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, folding, Unicode support, etc.

This package contains a version of vim compiled with a rather standard set of features. This package does not provide a GUI version of Vim. See the other vim-* packages if you need more (or less).

From Debian's description of the vim package, under that package's license.

Keywords
Text, editor
Menu categories
Text editors, Utilities

Related apps

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Sources and licenses

  • Name and summary: the desktop entry in Debian's vim-common package, under that package's license.
  • Description: Debian's description of the vim package, under that package's license.
  • Icon: the project's own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache for the vim-common package.
  • Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
  • Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.

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