"For the first 1-2 years of your Vim usage you will be much less efficient than your current editor because of the odd yet lovable key bindings."
Can confirm: starting using vim for freshman year of CS this year, noticed appreciable productivity enhancements within weeks.
Vimballs might have been the way to go before, but most of the mainstream, widely-used plugins have long since moved to GitHub and pathogen.
Also, a lot of the complaints this article raises about vim arise from the fact that he's trying to use vim like emacs, when vim is meant to be used as a complement not a replacement for standard terminal tools.
Can confirm: starting using vim for freshman year of CS this year, noticed appreciable productivity enhancements within weeks.
Vimballs might have been the way to go before, but most of the mainstream, widely-used plugins have long since moved to GitHub and pathogen.
Also, a lot of the complaints this article raises about vim arise from the fact that he's trying to use vim like emacs, when vim is meant to be used as a complement not a replacement for standard terminal tools.