Speaking as a Vi(m) user, viper is a pale imitation of the vi model. It gives you the basic keybindings all right, but you can tell its fake. Getting vi right

Speaking as a Vi(m) user, viper is a pale imitation of the vi model. It gives you the basic keybindings all right, but you can tell its fake. Getting vi right is about more than keybindings. Undo doesn't behave predictably. You can't always compose commands the way you would in vi. Actions that would be a single discrete unit in vi become an awkward workaround. I wanted to like viper, because I like emacs's programming environment better than Vim's, but it's not worth sacrificing the feel and functionality of vim's editing model.