Yes.

Most people who aren't in the tech just launch a word processor (word, libreoffice, etc.)

Tech people on Windows use Notepad or a similar GUI program.

Vim is used by a tiny, tiny fraction of people in the world.

> Tech people on Windows use Notepad.

I'm always horrified to see this. MS really shot themselves in the foot with the dev community by not providing a powerful text editor as the default. Getting a WinAdmin to enjoy the UNIX'y way of doing things is like trying to feed a child broccoli.

Also cmd.exe being a steaming pile of shit and the handful of commandline utilities that ship by default are mostly ancient DOS versions from the 80s.

There are a couple of gems (netsh for example), but commandline on Windows is just painful.

Powershell does give you a lot more potential, but I've found its syntax to be too verbose to be a comfortable commandline replacement.

Powershell is an interesting environment.

On one hand, it's almost a C#/CLR REPL with amazing power to program and script almost anything you could think of, but on the other it's not a shell and anyone coming from *nix that tries to think like a shell will be sorely disappointed in how verbose and unintuitive it behaves.

> Tech people on Windows use Notepad.

Tech people on Windows use Notepad++ when they can.

Vim is rarely used outside of editing config files on appliances.

This. Notepad++ has been my goto for years. It's tabbed, it does some highlighting. Opens literally anything. I've never wanted for more than Notepad++ offers by default. And if I did... there's plugins.

I know a bunch of people who swear by UltraEdit too. I think Notepad++ vs. UltraEdit is like the far tamer Windows version of Vim vs. Emacs.

I swear by Autosave. My favorite IDE is N++ and a Powershell window. I code in N++, then click on Powershell and reload the already-saved file.

And a compare plugin does exist as well, it's functional.

ViEmu adds Vim to Office (Word/Outlook, SQL Server Management Studio, and Visual Studio. I wouldn't ever consider using a source editor without Vim support now (I started a few years ago and am amazed how awesome Vim is.)

How awesome would vim key bindings for Libreoffice be though?

Vim is not a word processor.