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I must have skipped that post.. My particular argument deals with navigating through space indented code with the arrow keys, its extreamly annoying and my arthritis and/or RSI starts to flare up by all the extra repetitive key presses (1 vs. 3, 4, or 8).

And before you tell me to "get a real editor" fuck you vi and emacs suck ass. Their key shortcuts alone add to the repetitive key pressing cough*M^c-buckyball-crap-butterfly:qw*cough. If you can't make an editor simpler people, get out of the software business, k thanks. (kate works perfectly well for me)

I don't want to skip ALL of the tabs all of the time just one, or two maybe.

It's funny because the argument of "get a real editor that treats spaces as tabs" could easily be changed to "get a real [email client | diff generator] that understands tabs." It really is a personal preference, but obviously if you like spaces then you are wrong.

Fair enough. That said, I actually need to press fewer keys in VIM than I ever had to using another editor, but I appreciate that in getting to that point one has to pass through a stage with many more keypresses than necessary.

For the record and clarity, that's not what I said.

It's not, actually, once you know and understand the logic behind the commands. That said, the learning curve is very very steep, especially in the beginning.

We had a UNIX course that included basic vi in the first trimester in the first year when I came to university, which basically covered how to enter and leave insert mode, and how to quit. Not much, but enough to make you not have to kill vi from another terminal because you don't know how to exit from it.
Not that I used it (vim, that is) much until about half a year or so ago.

Never tried that, actually. I probably should, since I feel I'm missing some essential background when I'm trying to read the vim documentation. Anyway, {"name":"vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/f\/8\/f856948618747708157b5ad689e0ba04.gif","w":1024,"h":724,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/f\/8\/f856948618747708157b5ad689e0ba04"} is a very useful thing to print and have handy when you're learning to use vi. http://jmcpherson.org/editing.html is a useful link as well.
That said, learn vim if you want to and/or have a reason to (I wanted an editor that had native versions for both X11 and OS X and wasn't called emacs), but why bother if you're happy with the editor you have?

You know, I'd love one of those keyboards with LED lights on each key and have it change the enscription on the keys depending on whether I'm insert mode or normal mode.
Not worth the money though, besides, I'm willing to bet it doesn't come with VIM keybindings.

I like the exclamation mark after "not used" on the backslash. It's as if the author of the chart was shocked by the fact that there is a key without a command bound to it in vi .