Text Editor

We recommend vim as your primary text editor. Vim is pre-installed on Mac and most Linux systems, and it is built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. In addition, vim is highly configurable via the .vimrc file.

Tutorial

You can start the official vim tutorial from your terminal by typing vimtutor.

$ vimtutor

Alternatively, follow the tutorial on the OpenVim website and at other places (e.g., https://opensource.com/article/19/3/getting-started-vim).

MacVim

MacVim is a standalone GUI version of vim. It becomes handy when you want to quickly edit some text without opening a terminal. You can install it from here.

vim in IDEs

Most IDEs do offer a vim mode. You can set it up in PyCharm, VSCode, and even in Obsidian.