'Vim' has many faces (opens in new tab)  ⌨emacs

One of the problems I have when talking about 'vim' is that in practice, there are several versions of 'vim'. I don't mean 'version' in the sense of release numbers (although Vim has lots of releases and things change in them over time), but more in how people approach and use Vim. Even more than GNU Emacs, I feel that Vim has turned into an editor that has multiple faces, so the 'vim' that you use may not be the 'vim' that I use. (Which version or face of Vim you see depends in part on what ...