First paragraph: true. But have you tried exit from vim without looking at the manual? It reminded my Borland's Ctrl-k ctrl-d days. I've used vim/cream on 256M

First paragraph: true. But have you tried exit from vim without looking at the manual? It reminded my Borland's Ctrl-k ctrl-d days. I've used vim/cream on 256MB P3 1GHz laptop to edit files of size in range many hundreds MB. It worked well. If I remember correctly eclipse didn't even start on it. I've used vim from Linux distribution written on one (but little nonstandard) 3.5" diskette to repair not booting system. In short: YMMV