Re:You lost me at vim (Score 2)

Indeed. When I first got into the UNIX world (14 years ago), I saw emacs and thought, "how utterly logical, how utterly complete is this editor". When I first saw vim I thought, "how utterly cryptic, how utterly hidden from view are the features of this editor" so I opened emacs and learned a bunch of keystrokes.

After a few hours of C-x C-s, C-x C-n, C-x C-q, C-h, my left wrist starts burning. Last year I finally took the vim tutorial and found my hands are quite comfortable with the keystrokes. Committing the keystrokes to muscle memory also helps quite a bit. And pressing Ctrl-[ instead of Esc to get out of input mode lets you stay in home row.