[akavel]

I also tried a few times, always failing (apart from basic survival, i.e. <Esc><Esc><Esc>:qa! to quit ASAP...); I finally learnt vim when I was forced to at my previous workplace, because our main work environment was on remote servers with crappy connection.

I always said that love for vim is an example of Stockholm Syndrome; and now I'm using it daily as my main editor of choice. The killer feature for me is :cex system('foobar | grep something | ...') | copen. Other than that, various plugins, especially for Go (vim/emacs/acme(?) have the most mature plugin ecosystem for Go) and CtrlP. My current opinion is that vim is in some ways super cringeworthy, but in other ways lightyears ahead of competition. And as to the Stockholm Syndrome... I'm kinda on the fence now. But then... isn't it actually what the Syndrome is all about?...