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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Debian have a reference card for the main commands in vim. I think it comes as a pdf. It fits exactly on two sheets of A4, so you can double-side it, laminate it and keep it around - very handy. I'm sure the card doesn't cover nearly enough ground for the serious user or programmer, but it's really helpful for lighter stuff: editing config files or dealing with no-X things, like editing a file on another machine over ssh. For quick and simple things, I reckon joe has a lot going for it even though it's not nearly as powerful. But I find joe's commands easier to remember for some reason.