I made the mistake of using vim before switching to an IDE. I bought in to all the tough guy talk and put tons of effort into learning the arcane key combinatio

I made the mistake of using vim before switching to an IDE. I bought in to all the tough guy talk and put tons of effort into learning the arcane key combinations and trying and failing to get plugins to work to make it do basic programming stuff. Utterly pointless - use an IDE - if you are a professional programmer it is the one tool you use all day every day, spend the money for the best one you can that has a team of people working on it full time, paid well to make that IDE awesome. I use vim all the time now for simple text editing when logged in to a machine but I'd never dream of using it for programming. I know how to cut and paste lines in vim and how to save and exit, nothing more needed.