It's not that you "can't" do certain things in Sublime. But Sublime and other "normal" editors have only a few primitives in terms of editing and moving, wherea

It's not that you "can't" do certain things in Sublime. But Sublime and other "normal" editors have only a few primitives in terms of editing and moving, whereas vim has a language that lets you compose more complex commands from a set of primitives. The general form of a vim command is: (repeat)(verb)(motion/object) That is, I want to perform 'verb' 'repeat' times on a 'motion' or 'object'. Examples: fX == 'f'ind the next occurrence of character 'X' 3fX == repeat 'fX' 3 times w == go to the next word on the line 3w == repeat 'w' 3 times, i.e. go 3 words right dw == delete word 3dw == delete 3 words dfs == delete to the next occurrence of 's' yw == "yank" (copy to the buffer) the next word y3w == yank the next 3 words to the buffer H, M, L == move the cursor to the top, middle, or bottom of the screen zz == center the current line of text in the editor window. 8j == move the cursor 8 lines down ma == create a bookmark 'a' `a == go to bookmark 'a' "ay == yank to buffer 'a' "ap == paste buffer 'a' . == repeat the last editing command (insert, delete, yank...) I like vim because its commands are both efficient and precise. I don't need to look and make sure the cursor is at the right position or that I've selected what I want to cut/copy correctly. I know it's correct because I typed it in. And I don't need to move my hand to the mouse or arrow keys. And bookmarks and buffers are great.