Where Is Vim Installed on Linux?

Where Is Vim Installed on Linux?
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How do I find vim in Linux?

Introduction: Vi and vim is a text editor for Linux, macOS, Unix, and *BSD family of operating systems. Vim is a free and open source text editor.
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Searching for words in vim/vi

  1. Press ESC key.
  2. Type /vivek.
  3. Hit n to search forwards for the next occurrence of word named “vivek”. You can press N to search backwards.

Where is vim Ubuntu?

you’ll get a dump of file names, which will tell you where the bulk of the vim installation is. You’ll see that on Debian and Ubuntu, most of Vim’s files are in /usr/share/ . apt-file lists file names in all packages, whether they are installed or not.

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