Agree, and I would add that it's not just habits, it's committing to rearchitecting your workflow. Do you use things like debuggers, linters, refactoring tools, project management tools, etc.? Get ready to learn totally different tools (usually)!

I'm a committed (neo)vim user, but I readily admit I only got over the hump because I thought it was cool and hardcore and typing is easy for me. There's no question it's been worth it for me, and I would argue it's probably worth it for most people and better for the software ecosystem as a whole (GUI tools don't compose), but still I think trying to say one's better than the other is too narrow a view.

I think the difference between your and the other opinion is what does "learn vim" mean?

Is it enough to know how to enter insert mode, make an edit, then save and quit? That's easy enough to learn in a weekend.

Or is it learn how to edit efficiently using the various vim commands? That will indeed take much longer than a weekend.

(Even getting it configured just the way you want to will probably take more than a weekend...)

You're correct. I learned enough VIM to use it as my Git commit message editor. Beyond that... it's a journey as you said.

> Is it enough to know how to enter insert mode, make an edit, then save and quit? That's easy enough to learn in a weekend.

That's Notepad level usage, you don't gain anything from it.

I wouldn't say so.

The basics are very simple. You just get used to formulate a (weird) sentence of what you want to do in your head, abbreviate it and then learn (or configure) the buttons.

The problem here is the "just" word. To you it's "just" (as in a day or two), to me it's "I have to learn to think in a new way and that will take a while".

Filter bubbles, dude. ;)

True, I love to learn and especially learn new ways to think.

Everything is just a just for me ^^