I had a rather long argument with someone who can't stand vim and his points were mostly salient. Vim comes with a lot of baggage (or features, depending on how

I had a rather long argument with someone who can't stand vim and his points were mostly salient. Vim comes with a lot of baggage (or features, depending on how you look at it) from having been designed before Windows and the assorted userland became the dominant platform. Because of that, its shortcuts aren't CUA-compliant [1]. And that is just scratching the surface. Vim and Emacs are written by people who expect them to behave like Vim and Emacs, not like Sublime or any other "standard" application with a "standard" interface and shortcuts. You can definitely fight their design and rebind your keys to work as you expect, but through it all you're fighting decades of entrenched design. Those editors aren't maintained by people who think like you, so you'll always be a second citizen. Micro isn't for people who like Vim, micro is for people who want their editor to work in the expected mainstream fashion. I think GNU nano should probably also have a commandline switch to behave like a normal CUA-compliant editor and distros should have that enabled by default. It isn't compatible with anything but pico and someone who grew up with today's machines would have never seen pico. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access