Tips

Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi was an e-book distributed as a Stack Overflow answer. You probably saw it crop up on Hacker News a year or so ago. As a result of this tour de force in web comments I now keep track of interesting Stack Overflow questions and answers.

Last week I wrote about Powerline Alternatives, and there was also a Hacker News thread about vim-airline where one of the posters had this useful tip about Powerline:

The delay in leaving insert mode used to drive me nuts in vim-powerline. I posted an issue and the…