[thachmai]

If there is only one thing I can complain about vim/vi, it's the esc key. The key is too far away to reach easily. It is most accessible with the little finger, which is our weakness finger. Coupled with the fact that it's likely the most important key in vim. I hate it.

So when I use a non-configured vim, it's the thing that I miss the most. The rest is trivial.

However, using someone else vim is completely different!

You must keep in mind that vim is much similar to a programming language. You can remap keys all over the place. You can create exotic combinations that do wonderful and/or terrible things with few key strokes. You can install plugins that argument and alter vim behaviours.

Jumping into a well tuned vim setup is not unsimilar to starting to use a new programming framework. It's hard to be productive right away.

In that case usually, I just rename .vimrc, remap <esc>, do my things and get out of the way.