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Woohoo! Vim 6.3 has just been released . It is said to be the "most stable Vim release ever!". And for the emacs users out there who still remain in the dark, the text editor war is over, Vim won .

I originally learned vi way back in 1984, so I've had 20 years for vi commands to work their way into the lower portions of my brain. Now the vi commands are so ingrained that if someone asks me how to do something in 'vi' I can't tell them. I have to actually do it and watch what I do and then tell them. The downside of being so tied to an editor is that it makes it really hard to like one of them new-fangled IDEs like eclipse or netbeans. Try as I might, I always find that the editor and the usual reliance on the mouse (now lift your right hand off of the keyboard, move it 8 inches to the right, grab the mouse, carefully position the mouse pointer and triple click to select the line (compared to 'yy' in vi)) always drives me back to the comfortable home of vi. ah well... I guess I am just getting old.