<story><title>Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20</title><url>http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/11/happy-birthday-vim-the-venerable-text-editor-turns-20/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>Tim O&apos;Reilly makes a good point here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/aZSZCsAcHbH&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/aZSZCsAc...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;It isn&apos;t really Vim&apos;s 20th birthday. It&apos;s a lot closer to its 35th!&quot; Because of course, vim is really just an extended and improved version of the venerable vi, the first screen-oriented editor for Unix.&lt;p&gt;While the article starts out with a history of vi, it somehow treats it as if it were a grandparent, rather than the template for what remains. The core design of vim reflects the design insights of Bill Joy, not those of Bram Moolenaar, who refined and updated them.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20</title><url>http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/11/happy-birthday-vim-the-venerable-text-editor-turns-20/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>statictype</author><text>Vim has the kind of user lock-in mechanism  that big corporations can only dream of: modal editing.&lt;p&gt;Once you get sold on modal text editing it becomes very difficult to accept or use any other editor that doesn&apos;t do it (which is pretty much every other text editor out there). Sublime, Textmate, e - all great editors. Don&apos;t feel like using any of them after 10 years of Vim.</text></comment>