My vimrc.

Meant for writing plain text with timestamps and annotations.

I don't really do vi/vim, mostly use it as a visual ed.

Bill Joy's Aug-1984 interview for Unix Review: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html

REVIEW: What would you do differently?

JOY: I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as mode-based editors go, it pretty good. One of the good things about EMACS, though, is its programmability and the modelessness. Those are two ideas which never occurred to me. I also wasn't very good at optimizing code when I wrote vi. I think the redisplay module of the editor is almost intractable. It does a really good job for what it does, but when you're writing programs as you're learning... That's why I stopped working on it.

Similarly, the use of the HJKL keys for moving the cursor in the vi editor and its descendants also stems from the ADM-3A; it had the cursor-movement arrows printed on those four keys. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A