Not really, I don't configure vim and all my skills w.r.t. vim are via vimtutor.

Cost of learning: 1 hour (when I was bored on a long train ride and didn't have access to internet). I did the tutorial 3 times.

The basics of vim are easy to learn. Caveat: I do remember I had like 5 false starts in learning vim (and remembering nothing). This was before I knew vimtutor and googled for random tutorials. IMO, a lot of vim tutorials make out the vim basics to be much more complicated than they are. Vimtutor doesn't, vimtutor is the perfect example of a magic bullet.

Just type vimtutor in the CLI and go.

That's pretty dismissive. I used nano early on and moved to vim and loved it. I think other people might have a similar experience as me so I encourage them to try vim or emacs if they're up for it. I'm not trying to justify my time in vim, I'm trying to encourage people to see if they might appreciate the tool as much as I do.

> All those C programmers hating on python are probably just bitter they had to waste all that time learning pointers.