r/vim↗
VIM - Vi IMproved
The place for questions and conversation on the Vim editor
209k subscribers41 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~2% by known bots)39 authors / mosince 2008
r/vim has 209k members (+8.4% over the last 12 months). It gets about 41 posts a month from 39 people. Top topics: Vim Navigation Tips, VimPluginsConfigurations and VimColorschemes.
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Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Vim Navigation Tips19%
- VimPluginsConfigurations13%
- VimColorschemes7.5%
- Neovim Plugins6.8%
- Text Editors Comparison0.5%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Liberapay
- asciinema
- Stack Overflow
- Vim
- Codeberg
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