It took me about six months of using vim every day to feel like I was as efficient as I had been with Textmate or BBedit (the best options available to me at th

It took me about six months of using vim every day to feel like I was as efficient as I had been with Textmate or BBedit (the best options available to me at the time). I was already very agile using the keyboard shortcuts in BBEdit and other Mac text editors, but now for text editing I really do prefer vim's modal style. And yes, after having been using vim 95% of the time for a few years, it really is faster to keep hands on the keyboard instead of using the mouse. MacVim lets you point and click to position the cursor, just like any other text editor. I almost never do, though.