> the core modal interface of vim is related to historical limitations at the time it was created. While that's true, the type of text manipulation and navigat

> the core modal interface of vim is related to historical limitations at the time it was created. While that's true, the type of text manipulation and navigation one can achieve in normal and command mode far exceeds what one can do with the standard keyboard shortcuts for text manipulation, navigation, and selection in most GUI applications using, with or without holding the shift key, the arrow, del, home, end, pgdn, and pgup keys, or the ctrl-{a,c,f,x,v,y,home,end} key combinations.