On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 19:02:05 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
Many of these Vim users are not really Vim users - not in the sense that Emacs users are Emacs users anyways. Sure, they use Vim - but only because it's a default editor in Unix-like systems. If Windows Notepad was the default text they wouldn't have installed Vim so they could use it - they simply would have used Notepad. They just want something that'll allow them to edit text files, and they don't care to learn anything more advanced than the most basic stuff they need - opening it from the shell to edit a file, typing text, saving, closing. Other simple commands - like opening another file in the same session - might also be basic and simple, but because they are not part of that workflow these users won't bother to learn them.
I am actually one of those users. Set of vim features I really rely on is limited to tab buffers, regex search, built-in autocompletion and "jump to matching bracket" hotkey. Reason is simple - working with text is never a bottleneck in my work, I simply don't care how effective it is. Main benefit of vim to me is uniformity - it is exactly the same experience on my dev machine and via remote shell. Rest is just collection of optional yummies that can be used on per need basis.
