[macalicious]

Seriously, I can't stop but think while reading your comments that you have a lot of emotions building up within you.

I see your point in people evangelizing VIM, Emacs, Apple, whatsoever, but... who cares? Let them be. I don't see, why you try so hard to prevent people from being happy and enjoy little things in life. Why does everything have to be insignificant, because something else is so much more significant? I seriously don't get your point there.

Let people love their editor, even if it is insignificant to you. People actually are more productive, when they are happy using a product they like, or could you seriously imagine writing code/surfing the web/do anything with the on-screen keyboard? Even you would get frustrated and would hate your job. It does matter. Maybe not the productivity-wise, but definitely how you, as a person, feel.

[robomartin]

Well, it's possible that you are confusing passion with emotion. It really takes a thick skin to go against the grain. The grain on HN is very pro-vim for some reason. And, yes, it blew my top to see an article now proposing to go farther and ignore "hjkl". How insane will this cult get?

If all I achieve is to virtually snap a newbie out of the trance created by HN dogma the result is good. It would be a tragedy to promote these tools for another thirty years.