How Did Vim Become So Popular?

Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by dleslie on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:28PM (#23697102)

I used Vi, and then Vim, for a good 15y before I switched to Emacs. I made the switch because I had heard that Emacs let you manipulate your buffers with lisp as one would any other data in a programming language. I find I only really do that when using Org Mode or REST mode, but I'm still glad that I made the switch. The editor is ... mine. Mine in a way that a professional's tool should be an extension of themself.

I've been thinking of trying evil, but I don't really miss the modal editing as much as I thought I would, and it's been another five to ten years.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by reactchain on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:05PM (#23697333)

> The editor is ... mine

One of the things I like most about vim is that you can use it on just about any remote machine, and even if you don't have your own vimrc the default editor is still really powerful.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by dleslie on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:46AM (#23701246)

Tramp mode lets me do that with Emacs, and I get to keep my custom environment.

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