[Mugwort]

How is this even possible? I used EMACS for years and had no trouble understanding Vim. Who's hiring these developers who can't even exit Vim? Is this even a real story or the Onion?!? OK, it's real. I need to go outside and get some fresh air. This is simply too shocking.

[blensor]

And how should someone who has never been exposed to vim know how to use it without consulting any kind of reference (whether it is SO or any random unix sysadmin on the street you can hit over the head and drag home to your workstation)?

[kemiller2002]

This is totally anecdotal, and I'm not making fun of them. Most of the time when I talk to people who have no experience with Vim, they develop apps on the Windows platform. (They use Visual Studio.) They just haven't been exposed to it. They don't need to learn it. Until several of them started using Git, there was absolutely no need to ever touch it. This isn't every Windows developer. I'm sure there are several who know it, but that is my experience.

[abbe_k]

Why do you necessarily think they are all hired developers? I find it surprising that you and many others are surprised and even upset by this story.

Imagine someone never having used vim, maybe new to Unix overall, or new to terminal programs. Maybe this person is a student and is trying to learn. In some way he ends up in vim and it is not very intuitive how to exit it. The person searches for "how to exit vim" and find that SO thread and learns how to exit vim.

Does that sound so weird? If you act in a similar way towards colleagues trying to learn something new you should rethink your behavior.

[faitswulff]

> I used EMACS for years

Probably not a great representative sample