> I have experimented a bit with using vi(1) as my main editor to better understand where vim(1) came from. > But maybe I am simply "using it wrong" and need t

> I have experimented a bit with using vi(1) as my main editor to better understand where vim(1) came from. > But maybe I am simply "using it wrong" and need to adapt my thinking to suit the tool? Maybe a better way to think of it as all of these struggles are WHY vim exists? Mission accomplished, go back to vim :-) I started using fred (like ed on steroids) in university(1), graduated to vi during workterms, eventually used stevie(2) and elvis(3) for a few years before landing on vim in the 90s. vim has moved so far past all of those that it's like driving a model T to understand where your tesla came from. (1) https://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FRED https://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FRED (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_(text_editor) (3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_(text_editor)