> "So, the first motivation for using vim is that you think it's readily available everywhere. [...] That is definitely not something configured everywhere." T

> "So, the first motivation for using vim is that you think it's readily available everywhere. [...] That is definitely not something configured everywhere." The aversion to custom settings is a rather uniquely "vim thing" (emacs people don't seem to do it), but I've never understood why it is a thing. I am probably temporarily annoyed by my missing custom settings once every year or two at most. Most machines I work with get my vim config lazily loaded as I use them. Where that isn't feasible/possible/permitted, the lack of my custom color scheme flips a bit in my brain and I naturally use the compat feature set. Custom settings not being ubiquitous is an objection that makes sense in theory, but it just doesn't seem to be an issue in reality to me. Honestly I have more trouble with ~/bin