Vi Improved in FreeBSD

The base FreeBSD system include Vi editor which might not be as good as its improved version called Vim. There is lite version editors/vim-lite which doesn’t have any extra dependencies. It can be installed using the binary package:

pkg install vim-lite

I would also recommend to configure some settings to make Vim more comfortable. You can either edit the system wide configuration in /usr/local/share/vim/vimrc or the personal one in ~/.vimrc:

set nocompatible
set backspace=indent,eol,start
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