Do you use vim as your default text editor? If you do not, have you ever been in a situation you could do nothing but use vim?
Do you use vim as your default text editor? If you do not, have you ever been in a situation you could do nothing but use vim?
Also note that modal editing isn’t for everyone. I’m happy to learn hotkeys, I even got far enough to build musclememory for vim’s normal mode. What never went away though was my confusion about what mode the editor is in. I would constantly input text in normal mode and input commands in insert mode, leading to costly mistakes that tore down any speed advantage vim would have given me. I really tried, but never built muscle memory for this kind of context switching[1], maybe it’s an ADHD thing.
These days I’m on Emacs with an always improving custom command scheme of non-modal but context sensitive commands that do similar things in all major and minor modes.
Same situation with tmux which is almost a requirement for the typical vim workflow, and adds another layer of mode switching on top. On Emacs window management is included and so are remote shells/editing, so no need for the tmux<->editor context switch. ↩︎