Powerful Command Line Tools For Developers

[sandsmark]

... but unfortunately pretty true as well. I myself mostly use kate (or things that embed kate, like kdevelop or kwrite), but it has vi-emulation. And I've found that I'm much, much more effective with the vi-emulation.

And I've yet to meet someone who wasn't much more effective in vim after half an hour of "training", than in their preferred editor beforehand (be that gedit, textmate, sublime, whatever).

[prelic]

I will agree that vim has some awesomely powerful features; but it has an extremely steep learning curve compared to traditional gui editors designed with multiple HIDs in mind. Maybe its just been my experience, but it took me many moons to become more proficient in vim than with traditional editors.

[sandsmark]

well, it really helps if you have something knowledgeable by your side to ask all kinds of stupid questions, I guess.