Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VIM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VIM to another file type
To convert VIM files to another format, you need Vim or other Settings software.
Convert a file to VIM
To convert other file formats to the "Configuration Script" file type, you need software like Vim or a similar tool.
About VIM files
The .vim file format serves two distinct purposes. Most commonly, it is a plain-text configuration or syntax script used by the Vim text editor. Developers use these files to customize their editing environment, define syntax highlighting, or add plugin functionality. Less frequently, .vim represents a Volumetric Image file used by IFA Systems AG for VidiGo medical imaging. The main disadvantage of .vim script files is that standard operating systems do not recognize the extension, leaving non-technical users unable to open them without manually selecting a text editor. VidiGo medical files face a much worse problem: they are locked behind proprietary, expensive medical software systems. You cannot preview these files natively in a web browser or standard image viewer. For Vim scripts, the best conversion target is a standard TXT or MD file so anyone can easily read the code without specialized software. For VidiGo medical images, extracting frames to JPG or PNG is ideal, though complex volumetric data will inherently lose 3D depth and be flattened into a 2D image. Because the medical variant of this format is closed and proprietary, standard online converters often fail to process it. Only the original VidiGo software can natively render the full 3D scan data. However, just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the exact format, inspect the internal content, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects plain text or an embedded supported format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VIM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert VIM file to LUA, IDE, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML or ENV, you can use Vim or similar software from the "Editor Configuration or Medical Imaging" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to VIM, try Vim or another comparable tool in the "Editor Configuration or Medical Imaging" category.
The VIM Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VIM converter.