I haven't tried it yet, but that should still make it as useful as pasting text into vim to make changes quickly. Things like highlighting a sentence and making

I haven't tried it yet, but that should still make it as useful as pasting text into vim to make changes quickly. Things like highlighting a sentence and making it all lowercase or uppercase is very simple. (v/V/C-v for one of the visual mode selection types, then pressing u after the select makes it all lowercase, and ~ can swap case if you had capslock on and typed "sOMETHING LIKE THIS"). There's also :sort for quick alphabetizing and the classic :s/word1/word2 text replacement.