What am I looking at? VIM is sometimes referred to as a dual-mode text editor. To put it plainly, VIM has two modes in which you can manipulate files: Edit and GUI mode.

If you prefer to use vi or vim for command-line editing, you can configure shells to use vi key bindings instead of emacs-style key bindings. Here's how.

If you want to configure Vi/Vim on Windows, you need to edit the configuration file. On UNIX, the config file is called .vimrc whereas on Windows it is called _vimrc.