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“I used vim for a long time in my younger days, but at some point I forgot all the shortcuts I needed for efficiency and switched off of it.”
Jae Kaplan Interview, CEO, anti software software club · via Uses This 
“As for programming, I just can't quit vim.”
Justin Searls Interview, Programmer · via Uses This 
“For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim.”
David Crawshaw Interview, Co-founder, CTO (Tailscale) · via Uses This 


“For coding, I use Vim and a Unix shell.”
Toby Alden Interview, Game and web developer · via Uses This 
“For text editing and programming it's Vim, though I admit to using the arrow keys to move the cursor around instead of hjkl.”
Justine Haupt Interview, Science associate · via Uses This 
“I'm known for being the creator and maintainer of Vim, the text editor.”
Bram Moolenaar Interview, Developer (Vim) · via Uses This 

“I've been using Vim for well over 6 years now and I don't see me stopping.”
Jacky Alcine Interview, Software developer (Glitch) · via Uses This 
“It lets me comfortably compose all my mail in my favorite text editor, Vim.”
Chris Wellons Interview, Software engineer · via Uses This 
“In the terminal, I'll reach for vim, which I invoke as vi not vim because I am old and my fingers do things in the shell without conscious thought.”
C J Silverio Interview, Software developer · via Uses This 
“Vim: the editor I'm writing code with.”
Ludovic Chabant Interview, Software developer (Epic) · via Uses This 
“The app that I use the most within the terminal is Vim for text and code editing.”
Philip Guo Interview, Cognitive science professor · via Uses This 
“Since I do a lot of math, I have specificity for writing implements on par with my vim configuration.”
Jeremy Kun Interview, Infrastructure optimisation (Google) · via Uses This 
“Now, drumroll, fanfare, spotlight, take a deep breath, here comes the most important piece of software on my computer: my editor, Vim.”
Thorsten Ball Interview, Writer, software developer · via Uses This 

“vim has given me a very dynamic way of thinking with my fingers, but left me with a taste for absolutely never lifting my hands off of the keyboard that Spectacle helps to satisfy.”
Samantha Goldstein Interview, Software engineer (Etsy) · via Uses This 
“I mostly work in the terminal and use vim as my editor.”
Ian MacLarty Interview, Indie game developer · via Uses This 
“I use vim as a code editor.”
Suz Hinton Interview, Developer (Microsoft), hardware hacker · via Uses This 
“I started using vim in college because I thought it would make people respect me.”
Amy Nguyen Interview, Infrastructure engineer (Stripe) · via Uses This 
“Maybe it comes with being a Vim user.”
Kyle Kingsbury Interview, Computer safety researcher · via Uses This 
“A lot of my work revolves around text files (code, journal, notes, ..) so the two pieces of software I probably interact with most are vim and git.”
Daniel Schauenberg Interview, Staff engineer (Etsy) · via Uses This 
“This is very nice for using in Vim.”
Aaron "tenderlove" Patterson Interview, Ruby developer (Red Hat) · via Uses This 
“Since everything I develop is for the web, I use Vim on the command line, and I run my development servers there too.”
Darius Kazemi Interview, Internet artist (Tiny Subversions) · via Uses This 
“In half of my multitudinous terminal sessions, you will find Vim instances.”
Judd Vinet Interview, Software engineer (Arch Linux), CTO (Bet Smart Media) · via Uses This 
“For word processing, I do a lot of my writing in the vim text editor.”
Brendan Gregg Interview, Senior performance architect (Netflix) · via Uses This 

“For programming, I use gVim with the Mustang theme.”
Chris Klimas Interview, Web developer (Twine) · via Uses This 
“For development, I usually work with Vim with a highly customized .vimrc file.”
Adit Gupta Interview, Founder and CEO (Function Space) · via Uses This 
“For most of my coding, I use vim in a terminal window.”
Paul Lamere Interview, Music hacker (The Echo Nest) · via Uses This 
“When I connect to a Linux box, I use vim as a text editor.”
Daniel Lemire Interview, Computer researcher, professor · via Uses This 
“I'm trying to get into Vim, but the keyboard commands still seem arbitrary and non-intuitive.”
Ramsey Nasser Interview, Computer scientist, game designer · via Uses This 
“Since many of the computers and files I'm working on are remote, either elsewhere in the house or elsewhere in the country, I use vim to edit files.”
Andy Bakun Interview, UNIX systems administrator · via Uses This 
“In the terminal window, I edit code with Vim and usually have a bunch of ssh sessions open.”
Damien Miller Interview, Open-source developer (OpenSSH, OpenBSD) · via Uses This 
“While the software is running Vagrant, I edit text in vim.”
Mitchell Hashimoto Interview, Entrepeneur, developer (Vagrant) · via Uses This 
“I'm happy using vim for most quick editing tasks, though.”
Paul Tweedy Interview, Senior Technical Architect, BBC · via Uses This 
“For editing text, I use vim.”
Chad Fowler Interview, Programmer, musician, author, speaker · via Uses This 
“Sometimes when I find myself missing a particular feature in the editor, I'll open the file in vim.”
Justin Frankel Interview, Software developer (Winamp, REAPER) · via Uses This 
“I do all of my writing and programming with Vim in a terminal.”
John MacFarlane Interview, Philosophy professor, developer (pandoc, gitit) · via Uses This 
“I manage this by pairing e-reading with heavy note taking in Vim, but I still prefer physical book markup with pens.”
Ethan Schoonover Interview, Designer, developer (Kinkless, Solarized) · via Uses This 
“vim -- which I had switched to -- seems to be trying to occupy the space Emacs has vacated.”
Benjamin Mako Hill Interview, Social scientist, free software hacker (MIT) · via Uses This 
“My default text editor is Vim, and keep my daily todo list as a text file in a git repo.”
Selena Deckelmann Interview, COO (Prime Radiant), PostgreSQL contributor · via Uses This 
“Most of this is just about switching to one text editor - Vim - for everything, including writing email, blog posts, notes, HTML, style sheets, and code.”
Brent Simmons Interview, Mac, web developer (Glassboard, ex-NetNewsWire) · via Uses This 
“I do almost everything in the terminal and Vim.”
Derek Sivers Interview, TED speaker, founder of CD Baby · via Uses This 
“Looking back, I wish I had forced myself to learn Vim but only for street cred.”
Rebekah Cox Interview, Product designer (Quora) · via Uses This 

“I use gVim for other languages and text editing.”
Michael Ogawa Interview, PhD student, developer (code_swarm) · via Uses This