[vvnraman]

It wasn't like this but I would say my start was quite similar. I had just heard/read people being so productive with Vim and I always wanted to start but never could take the jump.

One time I had to do a college project in a language I had not used before, JESS (JRE cousin of CLIPS). Though its similar to Scheme in which I had coded a few years before, it has a few of its own syntactic idioms. I planned to do the project in VIM. As there was no baggage of using JESS with any IDE before, there was no such thing as a hindrance or inhibition which I used to have while trying to using VIM for coding C/C++, etc.

Within the next 2-3 weeks I learned the basics and a few intermediate use-cases of VIM (refactoring using registers, etc...). After finishing the project, I shifted to code in C/C++ using VIM has my primary editor and have never looked back since. I basically piggybacked my experience with VIM in JESS and the it took less than a day to translate all that and use it with C/C++ code :)

With regards to ViEMU, my use case is to open the same file in both VIM and Visual Studio quite sometimes as they both can detect changes made to the file outside of the editor. So far its worked without any issues :)