[dpayne]

spf13 is a great plugin bundle for vim that got me started using relative line numbering. It's great for the lazy person who doesn't want to bother setting up all the fancy vim plugins and settings.

https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim

[johncoltrane]

Lazy persons get the crap they deserve with SPF13.

[chrisfarms]

Polite translation: Take the time to learn how to setup vim yourself and it will reward you 10 fold.

[johncoltrane]

Haha. Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for your help.

I see two slightly overlapping trends:

1. Alice is intrigued by all the fuss about Vim and tries her best to wrap her head around it by reading online material and "The Fucking Manual" and getting her hands dirty. Because she knows that she can't be as productive as with her previous editor in an afternoon, she learns Vim on the side. Another benefit of that method (and one she doesn't know about at the moment) is that her commitment can be very light at the beginning: when she'll finally decide that Vim is not for her she won't lost anything. If she likes it her commitment will grow with time, as well as her ROI.

2. Bob is a lot into Twitter, blogs, Reddit and HN and he noticed a serious slant of what he perceives as the elite toward Vim (and the screenshots are pretty) so he decides to follow the herd, however weird Vim might be He installs Janus/SPF13/YADR because he has to be a part of the elite right now, no time to setup all those plugins and stuff. After a couple of coderwall posts listing his favorite plugins, Bob will notice that the elite is moving toward Sublime Text, persuade himself and try to persuade others that Vim is too old and, finally, switch.

The two trends are slightly overlapping because a few Bobs are going to turn into Alices along the way. Thankfully, because who wants Bobs in his community?

For the record, I'm a Bob turned Alice.

[siddboots]

I came to vim as an Alice. Everyone swore by vim, so I thought I should learn it, despite it being kinda fiddly for a text editor. It took me another couple of years to switch over completely, a couple more before I started to actually enjoy using it, and a couple more before I started to care about being efficient with my keystrokes.

Once you drink the cool-aid, there's nothing quite like it. Sometimes I think that scooting around a text file in vim is my favorite thing about coding.