A decade of vim

1 · Nithin Bekal · May 30, 2024, midnight
Almost exactly 10 years ago, I started using vim as my main text editor. I wrote a version of this article when I’d been using Vim for a year, so it was fun to look back at how I used it back then. Evolution over 10 years Thinking back to 2014, a lot has changed about how I use vim, most notably the fact that I technically don’t use vim anymore, because I use neovim! 😉 Neovim Almost 7 years ago, I replaced vim with neovim, and have never looked back. It’s faster, has better defaults and has exce...