In my experience, as long as I don't customize the regular keymappings, switching to a vanilla vim is annoying, but not crippling. About a minute of "dammit I c

In my experience, as long as I don't customize the regular keymappings, switching to a vanilla vim is annoying, but not crippling. About a minute of "dammit I can't use bufexplorer or :Ack" and I'm on my way. A large number of my vim keymaps are programming language specific, so this reduces the level of annoyance even further, as I won't be editing a lot of code on a "burning" server, mostly config files. Any code that is changed, will be a bit annoying, but the changes are usually not big enough that it requires a ton of fancy editor-fu anyway. The biggest thing I have found with all of this tho, is that everyone has different prefs, so if you're pretty happy with the way it's working, don't change because some folks on the internet are suggesting it, but if sounds interesting, give it a try, the worst that happens is you have to revert to the old way. (different optimization problem here I guess :) )