Which is to say that they don't understand vim, or rather, they don't even grok vi.

You can't beat your enemy if you don't understand your enemy.

"Go ahead and down vote more, I just wish you guys can learn more of vi, so you can truly deliver something better. So far, these surface scratching alterations only build on irritations of those vi first-timers. Good luck.

"By the way, I use acme when I have graphics interface, nothing beats sam's structured regexp editing capability, apart from writing perl scripts. Learn something, guys.