I'd say two things here: - Recent vim in terminal (and vim in a GUI container like gvim or MacVim) supports mouse interactions. For example, in macOS's Termina

I'd say two things here: - Recent vim in terminal (and vim in a GUI container like gvim or MacVim) supports mouse interactions. For example, in macOS's Terminal.app, View -> Allow Mouse Reporting will send mouse events to vim, which will allow you to scroll with your touch pad, select with your mouse, etc. - I think there is definitely a curve to learning many of the movement commands that vim provides to become fully efficient at moving, say, a block of code. When moving blocks of code, I most frequently use % (which jumps to the matching brace/bracket/paren) or } (which jumps to the next blank line). I agree that it sometimes feels like there's an analysis step in vim interactions that can feel like it's slowing things down rather than speeding them up. In my experience, much of that calms down after you've been doing it a while. But, that doesn't mean it's worth the investment---I think that depends on the person. I seem to editor-hop every 2-4 years. I generally end up coming back to vim for long stretches, but I've used plenty of other stuff in the past. I think if you feel productive, that's the tool to use. If you feel curious, or whatever, I think it's worth exploring. Vim is peculiar because its interaction mode is so different that it's hard to feel fully at home with it without going all in for an extended period of time and dedicating yourself to learning some of the stuff that's not necessarily immediately apparent. If you do that, sometimes you find it really clicks with you. Sometimes you don't :)