> Vim should be learned by blood sweat and tears

or learned via nethack.

To be honest, I know vi and emacs, and curse fresh Linux installs for having some weird editor with completely foreign control keys. :) Dunno if it's nano or something else, but it's mildly annoying to me. I tend to just uninstall it rather than muck around with the "alternatives" system.

True that. But this games some times help you with discoverability. In the sense that, sometimes you might not know if there is a way to do X.