Comment by bitwize

2 days ago

Vim experienced a revival in the late 2000s and 2010s due to influential Ruby on Rails people using it. The "editor wars" of old were won long ago—by vim; subsequent heats pit vim against JetBrains IDEs, Atom, and Visual Studio Code.

As IDE user since the MS-DOS days, having learnt vi on Xenix, adopting XEmacs in 1995 until UNIX got good IDEs, I missed that supposed vim victory in the 2000's.

Vim has plugins/extensions for all of those. Vim is a setting now. Even Obsidian I use with vim mode (obsidian plugin).