Sometimes stirring-up shit can be a win-win situation. I could agree with you and get the anti-vim guys all worked up. I could even back it up with random lin

Sometimes stirring-up shit can be a win-win situation. I could agree with you and get the anti-vim guys all worked up. I could even back it up with random links and examples from all over the web. I could also disagree with you and get pro-vim guys all riled-up. Again, suitable links, stats and a photo of some guy with carpal-tunnel would do the trick. That's great stuff! To quote one of the most memorable lines in motion picture lore: "Interesting game. The only way to win is not to play." I use vim. And I've used everything else. I don't care. All of it pales in magnitude to the efficiency losses elsewhere in the process of developing a software product. My guess is that on a daily basis I waste more time going for a cup of coffee, shooting the shit, reading/posting on HN, getting pulled in all manner of directions on the internet than any text editor could save me short of a brain-to-code interface. And, of course, there's the actual work of figuring out how to code something. I've spent days diagraming state machines with, yes, hold-on, paper and pencil. Once there, an hour or two and the bug-free code is written and working. Yes, even if you use Notepad. You want to be more efficient? Get really good at going from problem to finished, shippable, documented, flexible, reusable and bug-free code. What you use to enter said code probably does not matter. I'm going back to polishing my keyboard. Maybe you guys ought to do the same.