[ARussell]

After about 14 years of considering Vim as my primary text editor and slowly attempting to forge a configuration that I was happy with, I recently resigned to the fact that I simply was never going to actually reach that point of having a configuration I'm happy with. I don't use Vim outside of the terminal; I spend most of my time in IntelliJ IDEA. I never found the Vim key bindings in IntelliJ IDEA close enough to the real thing to use, either.

So if I can't keep muscle memory of Vim keybindings, and I have never found a Vim configuration I've been happy with, why was I so stubbornly holding onto the idea that Vim was the right editor of choice for me? I don't know, but I finally changed my mind and looked for another editor. A dead simple one with sane defaults.

It came down to Nano vs Micro for me. Both are great. I ended up liking Micro a bit better, although I'm very glad to see that Nano development is still active.