Depending on how you define "sane" it can be months. Vim is said to be a programming language for text editing - I wouldn't expect anything less of a complexity

Depending on how you define "sane" it can be months. Vim is said to be a programming language for text editing - I wouldn't expect anything less of a complexity from a thing like this. I recently learned Emacs and it took me two months - that short because I already went through the process with vim some years ago - to learn it and configure it to my liking. My Emacs config counts 983 lines with comments and whitespaces removed[1]. My .vimrc was shorter, but mainly because I dislike vimscript and like Lisps. [1] cat .emacs.d/config/*.el | egrep -v '^$' | egrep -v '^;;' | wc -l