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sceptreofjudah

rrainey

hexdump42

cherimullins

tlesher

jorjun

whosaysni

adamv

paulsmith

ntoll

enki

Rich_Herds_Cats

otherchirps

MarkofCain

gklein

frankwiles

paltman

bkmontgomery

RossP

justinlilly

bitprophet

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davidpaccoud

joe

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greyfade

claytron

floyd

nathans

durden

mwalling

pydanny

passy

madewulf

wzzrd

brutasse

Shane

andrew

joshontheweb

NX172

sceptreofjudah - 45 years

rrainey - 40 years

hexdump42 - 35 years

cherimullins - 35 years

tlesher - 2 years

jorjun - 34 years

whosaysni - 33 years

adamv - 33 years

paulsmith - 6 years

ntoll - 31 years

enki - 30 years

Rich_Herds_Cats - 30 years

otherchirps - 30 years

MarkofCain - 30 years

gklein - 28 years

frankwiles - 28 years

paltman - 28 years

bkmontgomery - 1 years

RossP - 5 years

justinlilly - 26 years

bitprophet - 25 years

Josh - 25 years

davidpaccoud - 24 years

joe - 4 years

Kanru - 23 years

greyfade - 22 years

claytron - 22 years

floyd - 21 years

nathans - 5 years

durden - 21 years

mwalling - 2 years

pydanny - 20 years

passy - 20 years

madewulf - 20 years

gg - 20 years

wzzrd - 19 years

brutasse - 18 years

Shane - 18 years

andrew - 18 years

joshontheweb - 17 years

NX172 - 16 years

sceptreofjudah

1980–

GVIM rules.

1985–

1990–

1990–

1990–1991

I tried.

jorjun

1991–

Very geek. I use it on rare occasions, never buckled down to learn it, when there is change control and rich client editors. But there's exceptions when an SSH session demands it.

adamv

1992–

On some sort of amber-screen AT&T terminal, no less.

whosaysni

1992–

I love vi only if emacs is not available.

paulsmith

1994–1999

Learned this during a high school internship at a lab that had a bunch of Sun Sparcstations.

ntoll

1994–

Have been using variants of this editor since university.

1995–

1995–

1995–

1995–

Scripting on Sparc Stations then - now, the occasional faffing about in Linux.

gklein

1997–

ubersoldat

frankwiles

1997–

vi is by far my favorite tool, once I grokked it I was literally hooked on Unix/Linux and development.

paltman

1997–

started using it during college and continue today using it not as a primary editor but still end up using it more than a half dozen times a week.

RossP

1998–2002

bkmontgomery

1998

First experienced this guy in a UNIX class in college.

xyb

justinlilly

1999–

Got started with this one on Slackware 4.0. Fun times.

mmai

bitprophet

2000–

vim is, well, an improvement, but knowing vim means vi is as easy as remembering not to try and use (insert everything useful here) when stuck on a shitty computer that only has vi. Which is thankfully rare these days.

2000–

2001–

I replaced Vi with Vim but still use it when Vim is not available.

joe

2001–2004

bocke

andrewseidl