Vim is designed for use both from a command-line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface. Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar, derived Vim from a port of the Stevie editor for Amiga and released a version to the public in 1991.
It is an improved clone of Bill Joy's vi. Vim ( / v ɪ m/ a contraction of Vi IMproved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program for Unix. Unix, Linux, Windows NT, MS-DOS, macOS, iOS, Android, Haiku, AmigaOS, MorphOS