Don't discount the possibility that some people that use vim, are old enough to remember using vi, over a modem connection. When you know the keyboard shortcuts it can be a lot quicker too even now.

vim is a little hard to get into, but from there its benefits pay off with lots of features. On the other hand there is emacs, with an even steeper learning curve (*cough* long inconvenient button combos!), but it's considered so powerful, some say it's a separate operating system.

What's even more crazy is when you've used vim exclusively for 30 years to the point where you sit down at someone else's computer and you try to use their editor and you are completely lost. You fumble around like you're an elderly person who doesn't know what a computer is, type random letters all over. You look senile.

But then you show them on your computer how you can record a macro of your key commands and then use a regex to match different blocks of similar text and apply the same commands all at once. And because you used navigation based on words and lines rather than characters it all just works.

It comes from the words "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping".

Yeah, the name hasn't aged well..

For my vim journey it was the draw of being able to quickly navigate and manipulate text without ever needing my hands to move away from the home row on the keyboard, and being willing to put in the time and effort to push past the learning curve.

Nvim user so imo it would be funnier if it was about getting caught up in spending more time customising the editor than using it or something, but atm just reads like someone who only got as far as opening vim and not being able to figure out how to close it

More like ... Just in case

:q!<CR> is equivalent to ZQ