History and Effective Use of Vim
After years of a love&#x2F;hate relationship with Vim (I love what it does, but have configuring it), I had an epiphany: by sticking with the defaults, whether they are my preferred choices or not, I can instantly understand how to use Vim in any environment.  Once you get used to biting the bullet and hitting escape instead of jj, or ctrl+c, it just works, everywhere.<p>If you abandon the urge to pimp out your Vim with a billion plugins, and just use it raw, it&#x27;s a kind of editor Nirvana.  Let go of your desires and live without want :)<p>Of course, that&#x27;s just me.  I understand why someone would want to turn Vim into their personalized powerhouse editor with IDE powers, with their .vimrc a &#x27;git pull&#x27; away.<p>But I&#x27;ve learned to live with the humble defaults, and it&#x27;s made life easy.