Vim

“I've been using vim (or, more often, vim editing modes in VSCode or IDE du jour) for around a decade”

“never, even once, have I regretted my choices.”

“I'm happiest with ruby and vim”

“Been using Debian and vim for almost 25 years now. Tried many IDE's but they're distracting, bloated and slow.”

“I'm still pretty happy with my mix of Sublime Text 3, vim, and JetBrains”

“So I've been using vim as my IDE for the last ten years. I've really enjoyed using it”

“I've tried to make them my default editors many times but always go back to vim (which I've been using for decades).”

“Vim still has a special place in my heart and use it on remote servers.”

“I've now been using vim as my main editor for notes, prose with latex or markdown, and programming for 20 years”

“As someone who is a midelevel vimmer and has been using it for 20 years”

“I've been using vim with the hjkl navigation-keys shifted one position to the right... this is how it really should be!”

“No plugins. Nothing. Just vim.”

“In contrast with vi/vim I felt comfortable editing files within 10 minutes.”

“Been using it since 2010 and I think in vim when editing. It lets me enter a flow state so much easier.”

“this is what I've been using since I started with vi[m] (~30 years ago). It's pure muscle memory after the first week or two”

“I've been using vim for 10+ years and followed closely the explosion of new plugins and the emergence of neovim.”

“I've been using Vim for 20+ years and generally only mess with my config and plugins once every 2-3 years at most.”

“I use both (and indeed, I use both) often choose to use the normal keybindings of those editors intentionally.”

“I've been using vim for 10+ years, but have relatively little of the manual committed to memory.”

“I'm a vim head too... I suggest sticking with vim, at least to start.”

“In fact I used it for 15 years before switching. ... Great! I love vim.”

“I use Colemak and vim... I recommend just leaving hjkl in their default positions... I don't regret it.”

“had a fairly productive tmux + fish + vim configuration”

“I have 'gd' mapped to 'go to declaration' and 'gr' to 'find references'. Works across dozens of languages, can be further scripted upon.”

“I'm a self-learned vim user too. I been using vim the wrong way till i watch this video”

“I've been using vim for most of my career but will use other tools when pairing or working with others”

“we switched to Vim because it fit that model.”

“I've been using Vi/Vim for over 20 years and I'm still learning it but to me, that's what makes it so much fun!”

“I've been using Vim for over 5 years now for as much as possible... Nothing has influenced my use of computers as much as Vim”

“I've been using tmux + vim + shell for 10-15 years and still going strong.”

“it's the only tool I've been using for nearly three decades, and I still use it more today than any other piece of software”

“I'm a happy vim Colemak user!”

“I've only been using Vim for about 8 months but floating windows is something you severely miss having previously used other editors like VSCode.”

“I've been using vim for roughly half my life at this point.”

“I'm a newbie vim user... These floating windows are like the second coming.”

“I started learning vim/emacs two years ago. I don't regret it at all and I use them both daily, even as IDEs.”

“I learned Vim last year and was forever changed by modal editing and using only the keyboard.”

“vim zealot who's been using emacs lately”

“I do most dev work in vim as opposed to an IDE too... for me at least, it is the best tool for the job 95% of the time.”

“Vi rules because it is simply awesome at editing text; it is very Unix-y that way”

“I can change my main language every few years, but I can't see myself changing my editor. ... I've been using vim for long enough.”

“I stopped using it in favor of vim.”

“I don't really use full IDE's that often (vim is my go to)”

“I don't regret the switch at all. I'm still quite the novice, but I've switched to using it nearly exclusively for projects.”

“Opening up a virgin vim session on a new system kind of makes you realize how much you'll miss out on”

“I've been using vim for quit some time now (I like it a lot)”

“I've been using it for about a year and all the combos I normally use are second nature to me”

“I'm having great fun writing F# code in Linux with Vim”

“I've been using vim pretty much full time since around 2000.”

“I've been using vim for a few years now and wouldn't consider changing (except for Emacs with Evil mode)”

“my tools (square selection, smart indentation in vim) make work with spaces easy, they type spaces for me.”

“I also use vimdiff sometimes and it's pretty great as well, with the advantage of editing a file inside vim.”

“Gvim + grep/ag/sed/tmux is all I need for full-stack development.”

“now, 3+ years after I took the plunge, I don't regret anything.”

“Give me a real keyboard, an UNIX-y system, a terminal emulator, exuberant ctags and Vim and I'm a happy man.”

“I definitely miss Vim modal design and keybindings.”

“vim works just fine, as do R, matlab, python, scipy, bash, awk, sed”

“I've been using it exclusively ever since.”

“I've been using Vim for a while... stick with Vim long enough, and you'll find that you don't really need many plugins or much configuration for it to be incredibly useful.”

“I've been using Vim more or less exclusively for the last year or so”

“I had been using Vim for years, and this is fundamentally one of the most useful settings I came across.”

“I went back to vim because it offered enough programmability to suit my needs, but it had the addictive center of the vi experience.”

“I love VIM, I've been using it since 1998, and I've never found any editor that makes me anywhere as happy as VIM does.”

“I have been using Vim for almost a year now, and I've thought about donating before.”

“I've been using Vim more and more and it's working out pretty well. In fact, as seems to be the nature with Vim, the more I use it the better it works out.”

“In case you didn't know, Vim already had undo "trees". My mind was BLOWN when I discovered this”

“I've been using Vim for over a year and had no idea about this. Holy crap, that's awesome.”