I bet you do, though - my experience of learning anything to a reasonable depth has been that I developed short-cut ways of doing things that are necessary but

I bet you do, though - my experience of learning anything to a reasonable depth has been that I developed short-cut ways of doing things that are necessary but laborious to a beginner. Maybe vi has a higher-than-average density of tricks due to its steep learning curve, but once you know them it's very capable.