vim is the acronym of Vi Improved . vim is text editor written by Bram Moolenaar. Vim is available in command line as well as in graphical mode.
It has advanced features as compared to vi text editor which usually by default available in almost all unix like operating system.

Note: Practical Tested in FreeBSD 9.1 Release

To install vim in freebsd, use the below given command

pkg_add -r vim

After installation ‘set nomodeline’ in ~/.vimrc file as suggested after installatio

vim  ~/.vimrc

set nomodeline

To get the absolute path of vim ,use given below command

which vim

or

whereis vim