There is another element in using Vim that's not mentioned -- it's a super fun journey, full of surprising discoveries, handsome rewards for a little effort, and generally the happy experience in continuous getting nice things from a seemingly inexhaustible source.
As an example, having used Vim for ten years, just within the last few weeks I started to seriously learn and use Ultisnips, SkyBison, Vim-swoop, etc. It has been pure fun and rewarding.
To be clear, I don't use that many plugins. Often time I discover something already built into Vim proper which can replace a plugin (after some light scripting/configurations), then I usually uninstall that plugin. This has happened more frequently in recent years, possibly because of my improved Vim-fu (still a mediocre user I am sure). So both productivity and portability get improved while I am having fun learning new things.
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There is another element in using Vim that's not mentioned -- it's a super fun journey, full of surprising discoveries, handsome rewards for a little effort, and generally the happy experience in continuous getting nice things from a seemingly inexhaustible source.
As an example, having used Vim for ten years, just within the last few weeks I started to seriously learn and use Ultisnips, SkyBison, Vim-swoop, etc. It has been pure fun and rewarding.
To be clear, I don't use that many plugins. Often time I discover something already built into Vim proper which can replace a plugin (after some light scripting/configurations), then I usually uninstall that plugin. This has happened more frequently in recent years, possibly because of my improved Vim-fu (still a mediocre user I am sure). So both productivity and portability get improved while I am having fun learning new things.