In proof either of my amazing prescience, or total lack of original insight, almost immediately after I’d made my previous post I attended an excellent talk by Giles Colborne at QCon on simlicity in user interfaces where he expressed the difference between the likes of me and the vast majority, who don’t appreciate that Vim is the best way to edit text, by saying that most people are more interested in getting from A to B without crashing, than in doing so efficiently. Not sure that he realised how literal some of us are in our favouring the risk of crashing.
I’ll shut up about it now before insurance companies start adding Vim usage as a risk to add to your premium.
