[spopejoy]

I'm a longtime emacs head and partisan ... but I learned vi to compose emails in the Berkeley computer lab in 1989 and somehow have never forgotten vi key commands ever since. Emacs is my preferred sw dev editor for most things but I feel like not knowing vi is almost professional negligence if you are on the terminal.

[iLemming]

I know, right? When people respond to a sentence containing "vim", with "meh", I feel like going: "What do you mean 'meh'? Are you saying you never used sed, or haven't heard of manpages, or `less` and `more`? What kind of programming you've been doing so far?"

How the heck anyone doing anything remotely related to programming can't be familiar with vim navigation? And if they're familiar what does "meh" supposed to mean? It's like having an "opinion" about where the Tab key sits on the keyboard: "I hate Tab, it was a stupid idea to put it on the left side..."