> But I have found it painful for original authoring of large original content, .... anything larger than two screens of text. I guess the balance is in how mu

> But I have found it painful for original authoring of large original content, .... anything larger than two screens of text. I guess the balance is in how much you're writing compared to editing; I'd hazard a guess to say that most programmers are editing code mainly, with only short bouts of creation. Whenever I'm creating, I always need to modify as I go; spelling errors, re-order thoughts, delete entire words, etc. and I find the vim keybindings too mnemonic to not use anywhere else. Even when I'm writing research papers on sharelatex.org, I still try to turn on vim mode, because I find myself trying to type ":w" and "ciw" all over the place.