I'm not a Vim master, but I use it a fair bit --mostly for writing server admin, single doc coding, etc. I think I know enough to do the basics like moving chun

I'm not a Vim master, but I use it a fair bit --mostly for writing server admin, single doc coding, etc. I think I know enough to do the basics like moving chunks of text around, copying/pasting etc. so that I feel fairly productive in that I can do those things as fast [or faster] in Vim as I could in a GUI editor.. But, any time I'm working on something more than a single doc [eg. a website, or a coding project] I reach for something else. I've just never been able to find a way to use Vim comfortably in a multi-document project, without feeling like I'm being a lot less productive than I would be using a GUI, such as TextMate with its built-in project file browser and excellent project wide find/replace. I'm learning Flutter at the moment and just got into using IntelliJ [in its Android Studio guise] and, at first I installed the IdeaVim plugin, thinking this would give me the best of both worlds; the speed of moving about within single documents of Vim, combined with the project management & code completion capabilities of a dedicated IDE. I ended up disabling it after a couple of days. The mental context switching caused by jumping back and forward between keyboard driven and menu driven operation was just slowing me down, rather than speeding me up. As an aside: I don't really get why the "Vim saves you having to hunt for menu items" mantra is still so prevalent in this day and age anyway. Maybe in the past when people had to reach for their mouse to find a menu item, it was a valid point in Vim's favour. But a lot of us are working on laptops these days and, frankly, accessing a menu item by tapping on a trackpad right under your fingers is hardly more hassle than recalling some arcane keyboard incantation to do the same in Vim. Plus, most regularly used menu items have keyboard shortcuts which pretty soon become muscle memory anyway. I've not needed to use a menu to access an Open / Close / Save / Save As / Print / Copy / Cut / Paste / Find / Replace / Undo / Redo / Quit... etc. etc. command in decades.