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I've never seen anyone using vim... maybe that's why I haven't had the guts to switch yet.

In that case, let me point to my SO answer where I share a videos of a Vim guy in action.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1088387/what-specific-pro...

Having toyed with Vim in the past I was never convinced enough to switch. I guess I've never truly seen it 'in action'. I'll have to watch these videos. Thanks for the link.

If possible, start with a Vim plugin for your editing environment.

That's what I was thinking about. I use Sublime Text so vintage mode should do the trick.

I think this is a good route to go. My coworker started this way and asked questions to me and our other Vim user.

After a couple of months, he got used to enough Vim functionality to make the jump. He was also motivated by the vim-features lacking in Sublime Vintage mode, but I can't recall which ones specifically were missing

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