I think the best case to be made for learning how to use a "power editor" is that editing text "manually" can sometimes be seriously disruptive to your flow. If

I think the best case to be made for learning how to use a "power editor" is that editing text "manually" can sometimes be seriously disruptive to your flow. If I can do a regex replace-all with vim, I get to go back to thinking about my real problems much more quickly than I would if I had to hand-edit.