> Like everything in the software world, because some Google engineers used it, it became world wide famous. I'm skeptical to this claim because vi/vim's wides

> Like everything in the software world, because some Google engineers used it, it became world wide famous. I'm skeptical to this claim because vi/vim's widespread usage predate google itself, by decades. It used to be the only way to really edit something in the 1980s on unix systems, unless you preferred ed. Vim's modal system extends way beyond some special cases. The most time save I have using it are probably not fancy stuff but quick movement across lines and within lines.