I tried oh-so-hard. I gave Emacs
hours of my time, fumbling around a
clumsy interface that makes me use the
Control and
Alt (what is this
Meta shit anyway) keys more than the spacebar. I even own O'Reilly's "
Learning GNU Emacs." If
ESR can't make me a convert, no one can, I figured.
I had fantasies of being the very definition of a
power user. I'd know every key combination, every
obscure command would be at my fingertips even if I'd never use it. I would subconsciously
calculate the minimum number of keystrokes to do exactly what I wanted. I'd be an Emacs LISP
uberhacker.
What does one do at the exact moment when you realize that despite your best efforts, you're a
VIM guy?