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Re:Modern Vim by johncoltrane on Thursday September 06, 2012 @10:05AM (#4484158)
Why should I care how many people switch to Vim? Or that some people are put off by the up-front effort you speak off?

Switching from a modern GUI editor to another is easy because they are all more or less the same. Switching from a modern GUI editor to Vim is hard because they are fundamentally different. Why even trying to switch if one doesn't recognize the need to put some effort into it?

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Re:Modern Vim by jamesrcole on Friday September 07, 2012 @02:22AM (#4487863)
> Why should I care how many people switch to Vim?

That's up to you.

I think Vim is more productive, and I'd like to see more people getting that benefit from it.

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Re:Modern Vim by johncoltrane on Friday September 07, 2012 @05:13AM (#4488247)
I think that Vim is more productive too but that's only my opinion and I have no desire to force this opinion on anybody else. If a non-Vimmer is curious I'll happily answer is questions and give her pointers but I'll certainly not be proactive about it. I have no stake in this.
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