I'm just gonna take this as a reminder that I'm probably due to drop a few more dollars in the bucket. I've contributed $250 over the 15 years I've been using vim, which puts me comfortably in the hall of honour...but that's still not a lot of money for what is, arguably, the most important piece of software I use. $16.67 per year...that's a bargain.<p>When I worked in C, I used vim.<p>When I wrote shell scripts, I used vim.<p>When I worked in Python, I used vim.<p>When I came back to using Perl after many years away from it, I used vim.<p>When I kept notes at conferences, I used vim.<p>When I wrote my first book, I used vim.<p>When I built my first (second, third, and dozenth) website, I used vim.<p>I can think of very few pieces of software that have stuck with me consistently through all those years. Linux, Apache, BIND, bash, the gnu core tools (grep, sed, etc.)...that's pretty much it. Nearly everything else has changed, sometimes several times.