Bram Moolenaar creator of vim interviewed by EXT2’s Rob
Kennedy.
Kennedy: “Why did you first start vim?
Moolenaar: “I learned to use Vi during my studies and later at
work. When I got myself an Amiga 2000 for home use, I searched for
a Vi-alike that would run on the Amiga. Stevie was the program I
found. But it had bugs and missed quite a lot of the commands that
I would like to use. I started with fixing the bugs, and adding the
Vi commands that my fingers were trained to use. I called it “Vi
IMitation” back then. I started adding useful new commands after
that. That is where it became “IMproved”. I continued making
changes, and, well, I never stopped doing that.”
This interview is not just feel-good stuff. Check this out:
Kennedy: “Mind showing us your .vimrc, with some explanation for
some of it’s lines?”