I feel compelled to link to the SO answer: Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/867757 https://stackoverflow.com

I feel compelled to link to the SO answer: Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/867757 https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/867757 You cannot create a "language for manipulating text" in a modeless editor, at least not a very rich one.