> You'd think there could be some sort of middle ground. I am kind of an odd vim user. I use vim as my only editor, but I barely know any advanced commands. If

> You'd think there could be some sort of middle ground. I am kind of an odd vim user. I use vim as my only editor, but I barely know any advanced commands. If I have to do a replace job, I do it by hand. I'm too lazy to learn macros. I'd rather learn a new programming language or algorithm. I also feel it breaks my flow, if I work on a problem and have to learn about my editor at the same time. For the same reason, I don't use any plugins. If I want to find out who to do something, I'd rather google it than using the build-in help. I guess, at that point I just want to answer the question at hand, not know everything about a command. I don't even really like vim, I think it many quirks. At some point it segfaulted times for me on MacOS. Copy & pasting from another application (browser) is annoying. The vim community seems to celebrate odd hacks like ":w !sudo tee %", which doesn't even always work. I use things like "!grep foo `find . | grep py$`" for code search. In many ways not the best solution. That said I still use vim, because it's a lightweight, yet powerful editor that is universally available. Any server you ssh into has it. It's all better than an IDE, that takes 30 seconds to load. I decided to give atom.io a try. It seems like atom has many of the benefits of vim, but it's advanced features are more easily discoverable. I just started to look into it, time will tell. Maybe I should just make a commitment to I spend one weekend to really, really learn vim.