# VI Editor

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/vi-editor

Vi (and its modern successor Vim) is a text editor originally created for Unix systems, operating via keyboard-driven modal commands rather than a graphical interface. It is prized by developers and system administrators for its speed, ubiquity on Unix/Linux systems, and efficiency once its command syntax is learned. Proficiency with vi/vim is a common skill among software engineers and IT professionals working in terminal environments.

Related skills: [Shell Scripting](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/shell-scripting), [Linux Command Line](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/linux-command-line), [Vim Text Editor](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/vim-text-editor)

## Open roles requiring VI Editor (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.