> And I am yet to see a single real use case where vim is faster than good old basic keyboard shortcuts (that includes cmd-d) I feel like I’m far from a vim “p

> And I am yet to see a single real use case where vim is faster than good old basic keyboard shortcuts (that includes cmd-d) I feel like I’m far from a vim “power user”, but people regularly comment on how quickly I edit text and code when I’m doing a screenshare. It becomes second nature in short order, so I’m never thinking about some multi-step process to before an edit; I just “do it”. As for the “5dd” example… there are multiple ways to do things. For me, that would likely be: * navigate to the first or last line of the block * <shift+V> to start a selection of whole lines. * navigate to the other extreme * <D>