y and p are better suited to vim usage than control c v I'm not sure what shortcuts you want similar to other tools. Leaving vim is easy :x if you want to save

y and p are better suited to vim usage than control c v I'm not sure what shortcuts you want similar to other tools. Leaving vim is easy :x if you want to save your work :q if you don't need to :q! if you want to discard all changes to a file These are 3 different operations with the 2 common cases taking 2 characters. Ultimately if you just wanted different defaults you could trivially provide it as a plugin to vim.