> That's great for veterans, but actively hostile to newbies. A programmer friend who has been using Linux for at least 6 or 7 years recently started using vim

> That's great for veterans, but actively hostile to newbies. A programmer friend who has been using Linux for at least 6 or 7 years recently started using vim as his editor rather than one of the simple editors. He said he was amazed that it did just that, it got out of the way and let him work.