On: How Did Vim Become So Popular?

[ecopoesis]

I was an emacs user until I had a summer internship where I had to constantly rebuild SunOS and Solaris boxes. No emacs in the default install and no working networking. But vi was there and it became my default everywhere.

[wyclif → ecopoesis]

Almost the same here, except I skipped the emacs part and went straight to vi because I was working with Sun hardware.