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    copied!<p>A good while ago, I read <a href="http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html" rel="noreferrer">an article by the creator of viemu</a>, clearing up a lot of the misconceptions about vi, as well as explaining why it's a good idea (and why it's been very popular for the last 30 years+). The same guy also has <a href="http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html" rel="noreferrer">a great set of graphical cheat sheets</a> that teach the basics a few bits at a time. </p> <p>I'm convinced.</p> <p>I've been convinced for the past 2 years in fact. But I still really haven't gotten around to force myself to learn vi as my primary editor, the learning curve is just too high. When I get down to work, acceptable but immediate productivity (using my current editor) has so far won over tremendous productivity farther down the line (using vi).</p> <p>Does anybody have any good tips to help get past the learning curve? It can be straight out tips, some other tutorial or article, whatever.</p> <p>Edit: Note that I'm aware of the <a href="http://www.vim.org/" rel="noreferrer">vim/gVim</a>, <a href="http://cream.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">Cream</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/macvim/" rel="noreferrer">MacVim</a> (etc.) variants of vi. I kept my question about vi to refer to the vi family as a whole. Thanks for all the great answers.</p> <h3>Update (April 2009)</h3> <p>I've been using Vim (more precisely, MacVim) in my day to day professional life since last December. I'm not going back :-) </p> <p>Good luck to everyone in their Vim mastery.</p>
 

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