Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderAfter years of a love/hate relationship with Vim (I love what it does, but have configuring it), I had an epiphany: by sticking with the defaults, whether they are my preferred choices or not, I can instantly understand how to use Vim in any environment. Once you get used to biting the bullet and hitting escape instead of jj, or ctrl+c, it just works, everywhere. If you abandon the urge to pimp out your Vim with a billion plugins, and…
I love vim. I am not one of those users who has a huge number of plugins and takes part in an extended eco-system that they perhaps do not fully understand -- for the last ~20 years of my life I have been trying to learn a little more vim each time I use it. I often don't, but it just has so many surprises that when I feel frustrated, I try to work out the "vimmish" way of doing…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 773
- Total comments
- 313
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-19 | History and Effective Use of Vim | chmaynard | 5 | 0 |
| 2019-07-19 | History and Effective Use of Vim | gilad | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-07-19 | History and Effective Use of VimFirst breakout · Best thread | begriffs | 593 | 218 |
| 2019-07-20 | History and Effective Use of Vim | fanf2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-05-06 | History and Effective Use of Vim | sonograph | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-07-28 | History and effective use of Vim (2019)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | iloverss | 170 | 95 |