[orev]

Usually when so many people are saying something, and one's reaction is "I don't get it, I guess I'm missing something", they are, in fact, missing something. You can't really know what vim does for you until you commit to it and actually use it. Then over time the usefulness gets greater as you learn more things.

If you expect everything to be completely apparent to you the first time you look at something, that says more about your approach than the value of the tool.

[muh_gradle]

Well no not really. I've used vim throughout college and still do use it on occasion. But I have found it to not be as important to programming as a lot of people claim. If vim is that much more superior than other editors, by all means. I have not found that to be the case at all.