I'm never quite sure if all these Vim commands people rave about are any better than judicious use of the alt/option, shift, command and arrow keys with the def

I'm never quite sure if all these Vim commands people rave about are any better than judicious use of the alt/option, shift, command and arrow keys with the default Mac behaviour. Although one essential change to the defaults is to remap CapsLock to be the same as Control --see System Prefs-- and then using Control-F to move the cursor forward one. Helps you get past automatically inserted closing brackets with minimal hand movement. I find that really tedious and annoying otherwise.