> -At what point on the learning curve do you feel using vim is an advantage for speed of development, if at all? Text editing is not a bottleneck in my develo

> -At what point on the learning curve do you feel using vim is an advantage for speed of development, if at all? Text editing is not a bottleneck in my development workflow, so I'd say never. This said, I wouldn't change to a different editor, especially one that doesn't have Vi-like modal editing. > Is using a mouse such a major factor that slows you down or affects you negatively? Yes and it's also an ergonomics disaster. Vim isn't great when it comes to IDE-like features but it's a great text editor once you grok the paradigm. If you use it like a "normal" editor, it kinda sucks. Once you can keep your hands on the home row at all times, you don't want to go back. Vim's killer feature, not found in any other editor I know, is repeat (.) . I use vim in tmux with a curses debugger and it gets a lot of IDE benefits but is language agnostic. Changing to a different editor/IDE depending on language/target platform/project just sounds awful.