Fair point. But if it helps you feel any better I gave up several times and just barely got by with editing (very slowly) when I didn't have alternatives. What finally motivated me into overcoming my mental block was regular expressions of all things. When I realized how powerful (despite being flaky and inconsistent) regexes were in the Windows editors I'd tried I couldn't live without them and it didn't take long before I realized how much better vim was than even that.