This is so true. Over 10 years ago I began craving the idea that is vim - and now I am a vim/neovim user, but it was a gradual process. I've used all kinds of s

This is so true. Over 10 years ago I began craving the idea that is vim - and now I am a vim/neovim user, but it was a gradual process. I've used all kinds of stuff, 20 years ago TextMate was the first I used for serious programming, then Sublime Text as I switched to BSD and Linux, then Atom. I tended to par Atom down to the essentials, but just like everyone else got gradually more and more frustrated with the performance and instability, so I began to play with vim and quickly discovered it's not so easy to jump in. I didn't want an IDE, but I did want some modern features like git integration, so my initial vim plugin count was reasonable. What I really struggled with initially was the lack of standard cursor movement, with select/deselect (autoreturn to insert), i.e what basically everything other input field and editor behaves like - even once I was comfortable with the vim way, switching between browser input fields and vim just felt annoying - eventually I configured my way around that so I can have the best of both. Going full vim took some back and forth. Using it on servers out of necessity really helped. One day, when an Atom update broke my configuration yet again, I deleted it and went all in on vim, I'm not sure how long it's been now, probably 6 years - and I'm still learning. So yeah... one does not simply recommend vim, but it is awesome, and weird. My favourite thing about vim... I've had the same config from the start, it has never broken due to an update. I value that so much.