不要被命令的数量吓到，我还没有遇到过使用最多几十个命令的人。我发现它是不可或缺的，因为当我想到代码时，我想到的是文本，转到思考鼠标只会把我弄糊涂。最大的技巧，我认为，是一次学习一点，不要犹豫，玩玩-撤销功能是很好的探索它的行为。

此外，如果您深入了解它，vim是可编写脚本的。可能性是无限的。

(是的，所有这些也适用于emacs…)

I'd say vim is definitely worth learning. I picked it up last summer, and it is now my editor of choice for just about everything (java is a stretch, but doable when I don't need extensive analysis support). As everyone has already affirmed, it is a wonderfully efficient tool. For what it's worth, I only learned a fairly small subset of vim's features (which took a day or two) from a graphical tutorial, and a few odds and ends from here (long read), and the search and replace functionality, and I was hooked. I've learned things since then, but at my leisure. I'd say the learning curve flattens out at this point, but then, I was using it pretty heavily and was surrounded by others who were, too.

我的工作迫使我学习vim，这很快就成为了我的第二天性。现在我抱怨的是没有vim仿真或插件的IDE。我注意到esc键已经成为我在vim之外的敌人。

我确实在Visual Studio中找到了几个vi模拟器:

http://code.google.com/p/vim-visual-studio/

Vim绝对值得学习，以下是部分总结前面所述的主要原因:

Vi/Vim can be found on most unix systems. Vim allows you to easily code without taking your hands off the keyboard. If you plan you configure anything in a unix based system likelihood is you going to be editing a fair few config files, therefore you'll want to learn a terminal based editor, of which vim is one of the best (sorry emacs). Vim compiles/has precompiled binaries for almost every OS out there. No need to post "I need a textmate alternative for [insert OS]", you'll have Vim instead! There are a lot of good plugins out there to add alot of functionality, such as in-editor cvs diffs, although some of these require a fair amount of tinkering.

另外，如果您喜欢Vim键绑定，也有一些ide在它们的编辑器中包含了Vim绑定，用于简单的命令，例如Komodo Edit。

要获得学习Vim的帮助，请尝试在终端中输入'vimtutor'并按照说明进行操作。还有一本书是特别好的Hacking Vim

vi/vim的两个优点:

它很轻 它几乎安装在每个*NIX系统上

仅在Unix系统上，Vim的惊人的普遍性，以及vi克隆的更惊人的普遍性，就足以使它值得学习。

除此之外，我认为整个vi式的思维方式让我变得更有效率。对于一个不习惯命令模式和插入模式等模式的人来说，仅仅为了插入文本而进入一个模式似乎有点过分。但是，当一个人已经使用Vim几个月，并且已经学习了相当多的技巧和技巧时，Vim似乎是一项值得的资产。

当然，关于Emacs风格的思维，Emacs人群也说了同样的话，但我放弃了学习Emacs，因为Vim更简单，而且为我做了这项工作。