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Caret vs Vim: What are the differences?
Caret: Better Markdown Editor for Mac / Windows / Linux. Better Markdown Editor for Mac / Windows / Linux; Vim: Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
Caret and Vim are primarily classified as "Markdown Editors" and "Text Editor" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Caret are:
- Code Highlighting
- Auto-Completion
- Context Commands
On the other hand, Vim provides the following key features:
- Vertically Split Windows
- Vimdiff
- Folding
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Pros of Vim
- Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)346
- Fast326
- Highly configurable311
- Less mouse dependence297
- Lightweight246
- Speed144
- Plugins99
- Hardcore96
- It's for pros81
- Vertically split windows65
- Open-source29
- Modal editing25
- No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor22
- It stood the Test of Time21
- Unicode16
- Everything is on the keyboard13
- Stick with terminal13
- Dotfiles12
- VimPlugins12
- Flexible Indenting11
- Efficient and powerful10
- Hands stay on the keyboard10
- Programmable10
- Large number of Shortcuts9
- Everywhere9
- A chainsaw for text editing8
- Unmatched productivity8
- Modal editing changes everything7
- Super fast7
- Developer speed7
- Because its not Emacs7
- You cannot exit6
- Themes6
- Makes you a true bearded developer6
- Intergrated into most editors5
- Most and most powerful plugins of any editor5
- Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc5
- Habit5
- Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd5
- Great on large text files5
- Shortcuts5
- EasyMotion5
- Perfect command line editor4
- Intuitive, once mastered4
- Not MicroSoft1
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Cons of Vim
- Ugly UI8
- Hard to learn5
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What is Caret?
Better Markdown Editor for Mac / Windows / Linux
What is Vim?
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
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