Just Two More Plugins

When you search for "vi" and Google immediately suggests "Did you mean: emacs" - that's not a search engine, that's a declaration of war in the text editor holy wars. Google just picked a side in the oldest developer rivalry known to mankind. Next they'll be suggesting "Did you mean: spaces" when you search for tabs. The audacity!

The bell curve of IDE preferences shows the full spectrum of developer evolution. On the left, junior devs with barely enough experience to compile "Hello World" happily use free text editors. In the middle, the financially masochistic mid-level devs shell out hundreds for JetBrains subscriptions and swear their productivity justifies it. Meanwhile, on the right, battle-hardened senior devs who've seen IDEs come and go have circled back to Vim or some obscure terminal-based editor they've used since the Clinton administration. The truly enlightened know that paying for an IDE is just Stockholm syndrome with syntax highlighting.

The text editor hierarchy is real and it's brutal . At the top, Vim/Emacs users look down on everyone with their terminal superiority complex. In the middle, VSCode/Spyder folks think they've found the perfect balance between power and sanity. And then there's the poor soul using whatever text editor came pre-installed with Ubuntu, probably Gedit or Nano, just trying to survive while everyone else judges their life choices. The coding elite have created their own caste system, and your editor choice reveals exactly where you belong in the programming social hierarchy. The deeper you go into customizing your .vimrc file, the more insufferable you become to everyone around you.

This is Obsidian's way of saying "Are you really sure you want to enter the Hotel California of text editors?" The Vim confirmation dialog is basically the digital equivalent of those warning signs before roller coasters that say "People with heart conditions should not ride." Obsidian knows once you enter Vim mode, there's a 90% chance you'll be frantically Googling "how to exit vim" in about 30 seconds. That red warning text might as well say "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" because nothing says user-friendly like an editor where the most searched command is how to quit the damn thing. It's the text editor equivalent of a relationship status: "It's complicated."

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY to classify Vim users as having a "disability"! 💀 The most savage burn in web development history! Keyboard warriors everywhere are CLUTCHING their mechanical keyboards in horror! Because let's be honest, nothing says "I make life unnecessarily complicated for myself" like spending 6 months learning how to exit an editor. Meanwhile, the rest of us peasants with our mouse-clicking privileges are just trying to navigate websites without typing ":wq" to submit a form. The struggle is REAL, people!

The perfect metaphor for the Vim user in every dev team. While everyone else is silently mourning the death of simplicity in text editors, that one developer just has to announce their undying loyalty to Vim. It's like a funeral for normal editing workflows, and the Vim enthusiast still can't resist the urge to tell everyone about their 47 custom keybindings and how they can delete a word with "diw" faster than you can reach for your mouse. The coffin might as well contain the remains of productive team discussions that don't devolve into editor wars.