I decided, just for the hell of it, to learn vim. I had always considered myself an Emacs man, because even while I didn’t really use it, it was the first *nix text editor I ever used. So I guess I felt some kind of loyalty to it. It probably didn’t help that the first few times I tried to use vim, I thought it was too complicated. After switching over to the Mac, I bought a copy of BBEdit. It’s a really great, full featured editor. Probably too full featured for my simple programming needs. If I needed something from the command line, I’d normally use Pico, since I wasn’t doing anything hardcore, usually just making small edits to files. Now that I’ve actually put some effort into learning it, I have to say I quite like vim. It does a lovely job of syntax highlighting my Python files, and the weird commands now seem less weird than those for Emacs. So to all those folks on IRC who I made fun of for using vim [you know, all you guys who are way more hardcore than I'll ever be], I apologise. I have seen the light. And now, I feel a little more hardcore. 
UPDATE: Forgot to mention, another reason for learning vim is that it’s one of the only command line text editors available for the Nokia 770.
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