I concur. That's why the only good thing that I said about VIM is the modal editing which is the most pleasing and efficient mode of editing text that I have ev

I concur. That's why the only good thing that I said about VIM is the modal editing which is the most pleasing and efficient mode of editing text that I have ever seen. However, all your points are very correct! That is why I have switched to Emacs where I can still have full VIM modal editing with the other issues you mentioned not being an issue. Emacs has a mode called 'evil' which fully emulates VIM. Best of both worlds^^