I don't know how you are working and what your typing characteristics are, but you are probably not doing a lot of fast typing. Once you type reasonably fast (

I don't know how you are working and what your typing characteristics are, but you are probably not doing a lot of fast typing. Once you type reasonably fast (>30wpm), the time you have to invest to reach for the mouse, do some funky things and home back in to the keyboard is quite significant. Another thing is, that once you got some of the very useful commands into your bone, like repeat action, some of the more elaborate selections, replacing and so on, you really get much more efficient with vim. There are other advantages too. Pulling gedit through and ssh session is at best problematic, most cases there won't be an X client on the other side. You (almost) always find some kind of vi/vim there though. There are all those nice things you can do that are really use case specific, like live editing files through ftp, scripting various things that you regularly do, adapting the config file, etc.. But it's not a question of "months". Really, vim has a very steep learning curve and you have to use it on a regular basis so it gets entrenched in you. Think more about "years". But that's cool, there is always more to learn, tweak and optimize.