All of these features are also in "graphical" editors, despite the claims. M$ had been doing it for decades. I remember a friend of mine showing how easy it wa

All of these features are also in "graphical" editors, despite the claims. M$ had been doing it for decades. I remember a friend of mine showing how easy it was to block select in vim. I waited 30 secs or so. I showed him the same in visual c++ (circa 2000s). We then had a "vim-off". eg. Find/replace/regex across a range of things -- using only the keyboard. The best I conceded was how the highlighting of results was probably superior... (sublime text, and vs code are as good as that now) I know a lot of people here love vi (and Emacs), but personally, the only command I'm happy to learn is :q (and I presume negative karma for this comment will result) :D I always install le for my terminal connections, and fall back to nano where needed. I've been meaning to write a console editor of my own that matches ye-o olde vc++ and visual studio... I think there's something in the vi evangelism that I haven't quite grasped... otherwise I'm sure I'd have been using it for decades. edit: not sure about the yank/ clipboard history... but that's part of the os in gui world.