Mastering the Vim Editor Quiz
Put your Vim skills to the test with this quiz on mastering the Vim editor! See how many correct answers you can get out of 10.
1. What is the primary programming language used in Vim's development?
2. Which editor was Vim originally derived from?
3. Who is the original author of Vim?
Bill Joy
Bram Moolenaar
Tim Thompson
Tony Andrews
4. In which year was the initial release of Vim?
5. Which scripting language is primarily used for Vim plugins?
6. Which text editor is Vim most similar to in its compatibility mode?
7. On which platform was the Stevie editor, a precursor to Vim, initially developed?
Atari ST
Commodore 64
Apple II
ZX Spectrum
8. Which major feature does Vim have that vi does not inherently support?
Macro recording
Regular expressions
Syntax highlighting
Batch processing
9. What is Vim's relationship to the Single Unix Specification and POSIX?
Fully compliant
Partially compliant
Not compliant
Unknown
10. Which 2018 survey found Vim to be the most popular editor among its participants?
Dev.to
Linux Journal
Reddit
GitHub
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