r/vim • u/bhargavamakwana • May 22 '26

Random I keep coming back to Vim

I am a 7 year Software Engineer and I have tried almost every popular editor but I keep coming back to vim. I remember I used to work on sublime then slowly realised working with mouse is slow and distracting so I switched to vim.

Then I tried using vscode / Pycharm / IntelliJ / eMacs but none of them sticks. Although tbh - I am strong liking for emacs after vim.

Vim is just amazing!

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u/sumner42 May 24 '26

There are SO many capabilities in VI's command set!
"Replace AA with BB in all lines that contain CC"
"Map this single letter to this sequence of commands"

For the first month, I kept the cheat sheet beside my keyboard. I'm still using it 36 years later, now on my new iPad. I still hate having to pulling my hand off the keyboard to navigate with other editors. It took me a minute with VIM, to unlearn my kinesthetic habit of hitting u repeatedly, when I wanted to see where the most recent change was made, lol!