> it's really not that much to learn. Vim's been my main text editor for a while now, but I think it's misleading to suggest a shallow/gentle learning curve.

> it's really not that much to learn. Vim's been my main text editor for a while now, but I think it's misleading to suggest a shallow/gentle learning curve. It's not the sheer amount of stuff to learn so much as it is that you have to know a lot of it at once and then get it in muscle memory in order to not break flow while you're trying to do even simple things. It's been over 20 years since I first picked up vi. I still remember that I was murderously angry at whoever had invented it for the first month or two. It was only after that period of suffering that I found I rather liked it.