Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 8th Jul 2008 15:19 UTC
I find a large number of people around me who have used vim a few times while writing programs. Very few of them have grown into becoming effective vim users. The majority drop out because of its initially daunting interface. A good number of the interested users switch to emacs, because they think the 'power' just isn't there with vim. I am not saying emacs is bad, but I just cannot stand decisions made on lack of information.
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2005-08-27
I found the following helpful for cases where you are on a system and want to turn off some very annoying vim settings.
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=330
Add to personal .vimrc:
set nocindent
set nosmartindent
set noautoindent
filetype indent off
I use this in case a GNU system already has vim that I didn't remove and already replace with nvi.