I've made quasi-regular attempts to get truly comfortable with both Emacs and Vim at various points over the... last two decades, honestly. Strangely, I was alw

I've made quasi-regular attempts to get truly comfortable with both Emacs and Vim at various points over the... last two decades, honestly. Strangely, I was always a little more comfortable in Vim, even though the other editors I've been comfortable with through the years have been modeless. Last year, though, Vim actually took for me, and I think there were three reasons: (1) Buying the book Practical Vim from the Pragmatic Programmers, which is aimed at people who kinda-sorta know Vim but don't know much of Vim. I still haven't truly internalized a lot of what I've read, but just understanding the magic of ":find", "." and a slightly greater number of the Ten Thousand Ways to Select has been amazing. (2) Trying to do as much as possible with "native" commands rather than plugins, then adding a smaller number of considered plugins back in. (3) Having a real project -- of sorts -- to work on and sticking with Vim for that project. In this case, the project was going through the entire Pragmatic Studio course on Rails 6. (It's good.) I'm pretty sure these same three steps would work for learning Emacs, too. (Obviously with a good book on Emacs in step 1, not Vim, yes, yes.) But I'm actually pretty happy with Vim. Also, the proper way to quit MacVim is clearly to select "Force Quit" from the Apple menu.