--- title: Best Vim posts — January 2023 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Vim posts from January 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/vim/best-of/2023/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/vim/best-of/2023/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Vim posts — January 2023 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Vim posts from January 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Vim — January 2023 1. 1 [](/posts/how-to-use-vim-tutorial-for-beginners-y3w8tfa-v "How to Use Vim – Tutorial for Beginners") Article freeCodeCamp · 4y How to Use Vim – Tutorial for Beginners Vim is a free and open-source cross-platform text editor. It was first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for UNIX variants. Vim comes pre-installed on most \*nix operating systems, but if it's installed on your system, you can install it with a package manager of your choice. 70 6 2. 2 [](/posts/7-reasons-why-developers-prefer-neovim-over-vim-ms3g3du1s "7 Reasons Why Developers Prefer NeoVim Over Vim") Article Linux Handbook · 4y 7 Reasons Why Developers Prefer NeoVim Over Vim Neovim is an editor that aims to improve the quality of life for all developers, better than Vim. NeoVim has gathered a significant following among developers. The lead developer of Vim has not been fostering the development of Vim as a community-friendly project. The Vim codebase is less maintainable than Neovim. 23 1 [See all Vim archives](/tags/vim/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/vim/best-of/2023/01#page","url":"https://daily.dev/tags/vim/best-of/2023/01","name":"Best Vim Posts — January 2023","description":"The most upvoted Vim posts from January 2023, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/vim/best-of/2023/01#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-vim-tutorial-for-beginners-y3w8tfa-v","name":"How to Use Vim – Tutorial for Beginners"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/7-reasons-why-developers-prefer-neovim-over-vim-ms3g3du1s","name":"7 Reasons Why Developers Prefer NeoVim Over Vim"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tags","item":"https://daily.dev/tags"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Vim","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/vim"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/vim/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"January 2023"}]}]} ```