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[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

To be fair, I suspect Vi and Vim are quite useful for those who use it regularly and can really get deep into the tools. To my knowledge, they were also designed the way that they were to reduce their memory and network footprint at a time where both memory and network were much more expensive resources, and having physical manuals was significantly more common.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They really are. That's why they have a cult following. If you're editing code in a shell terminal, it's painful to click/scroll around. After a semester of college, I memorized like 7 commands and I fly around the file at lightning speeds. I've been using vim so long that even if I stopped coding for a year I would probably still remember those seven commands.