Programmers in the current era like to work using IDEs because it is more user friendly. But there are reasonable number of programmers who still use command line for programming. Their favourite editor might be Vim. Vim is easy to use, light-weight and comes with almost every Unix distribution. Unlike IDEs, it does not hang easily. The only problem with Vim editor is that it does not have inbuilt syntax highlighters. Checkout Vim Bootsrap , problem solved. Using the site you can generate .vimrc file for your favourite programming language. Copy the .vimrc file in your home directory. Now, you are ready to start programming using your favourite language. Vim Bootstrap comes with support of c, python, php, javascript, perl, go and lot more.
