How I got started with Vim
Yesterday I made an offhand comment about the long story of how I got started with Vim, so I figured I’d follow up today with that. That story takes us all the way back to 1999.
Fresh out of college, I landed a job with a startup e-commerce site called LinuxMall.com. Not quite by accident but certainly a lot of luck was involved, and some hubris. I was armed with a B.A. in English and Communications/Journalism, as well as a few years of undisciplined and unguided tinkering with Linux.
I’d emailed LinuxMall.com about a possible job, and the founder (Mark Bolzern) was kind enough to roll the dice on me. My job description was ambiguous but involved marketing, writing, and assorted promotional activities.
But part of the job was updating the LinuxMall.com web site.