Tool or Weapon

No this isn't a post about sweet knives or guns etc. Sorry. But it is another piece about my favorite editor - VIM.

I was talking with a coworker about a certain lightweight plugin driven IDE from our Redmond friends. It was all him, I had nothing to contribute to the conversation except 'I use VIM'. It was a great conversation. I learned about the good and bad he's discovered in using it. Everything he said made perfect sense... pretty much similar issues present in its bigger sister. - Except for the split window weirdness. That was a new one.

It got me wondering if I was inhibiting myself by stubbornly using solely VIM. Just like tools in a toolbox, they aren't mutually exclusive. A hammer has use, a drill has a different use. I typically tend to use IDEs solely for debugging or building. All the editing I prefer to do in VIM. But I think it's a good idea to not let my VIM-love box me in. I'm not betraying VIM by using other tools available to me.

What this has to do with weapons.. Nothing really. Just the title that came to me 

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