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I use and like Vim, but I feel like the articles that make it to HN all say the same thing ("I had a conversion experience," followed by some configuration details, followed by basic keystrokes, etc).

Why does everyone feel the need to re-tell the same story?

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To get more people to use Vim. It's also annoying when IDE people assume that Vim and Emacs people are just old-fashioned and using inferior tools; explaining why and how you use Vim is a great way to dispel these misconceptions.

The stories aren't the same, though.

This story is pretty different from, say, Yehuda Katz's story about switching to Vim.

I find all the different takes interesting, and I think you can casually learn from the differences between them.

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