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Interview with a VIM Enthusiast

Kai LentitCited 4× on HN, 2022-2025
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1.2M views · 4 years ago · comedy · evergreen

A parody interview with a fanatical Vim user, mocking editor-loyalty culture. It is a short programmer-humor sketch from Kai Lentit.

Shared as a joke in editor and tooling threads whenever Vim devotion comes up.

Satire & parodyTesting, debugging & developer tools#vim#parody#programmerhumor#editors#sketch

4 comments from Hacker News

@4ggr02025 · in “Microsoft Edit”

as someone who uses CLI text editors frequently, but not often enough to build the muscle memory which remembers VI shortcuts, i really appreciate simple text editors. i know that i can press like 3-4 arbitrary buttons to mark a block to move it to a different place - how about i just mark it with my cursor and CTRL-X CTRL-V, like every freaking other program out there. i appreciate that i got VI on freshly installed or secured servers, but for things i use daily, i just want it to be KISS. already counting on people answering 'but vim is easy and simple'. opinions differ i guess. ▶ this video

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@Dead_Lemon2023 · in “LazyVim”

No exactly on topic, but I enjoyed this parody, Interview with a VIM Enthusiast: ▶ this video also, Interview with a Emacs Enthusiast: link

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@jiggawatts2023 · in “Factory Factory Factory”

I knew mentioning EMACS would get the HN crowd riled up, that's the point. :) For laughs: Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023: link And to keep things fair and balanced, an Interview with a VIM Enthusiast: ▶ this video "I actually wrote a vim versus IDE comparison. Do you know how much faster vim was? 4.3 seconds! 4.3 seconds I saved every day! All those months learning were totally worth it."

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@sky-kedge07492022 · in “I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium”

Interview with a VIM Enthusiast 2022: ▶ this video "You don't really need a career once you know Vim. Vim is your career now. What's a career anyway?"

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