tl;dr - Vim's GUI features are different (arguably better) than your Windows-ey conventions. If you want to get started with your "old" key shortcuts, get start

tl;dr - Vim's GUI features are different (arguably better) than your Windows-ey conventions. If you want to get started with your "old" key shortcuts, get started with "evim" that ships with Vim. Cut, copy and paste work a bit differently in Vim. There's a whole lot of clipboards (called "registers") in Vim, some of which have a special purpose. This is a very powerful feature but it doesn't work like the rest of your apps do so it may be misleading at first. Find and replace is another feature that's not so easy to get started with in Vim, but, again, it can do regex matches and a whole lot more than your regular text editor can. Vim has also got a neat undo feature, which actually stores a tree-like history. New document, save, print and others can easily be found in just about any Vim GUI. If you want a smooth start with Vim without having to learn everything again, you can use evim (bundled with default Vim) that uses all these Windows-ey "default" keybindings. It's also worth mentioning that most of Vim's keybindings are default keybindings in Unix since the dawn of man (before Ctrl-S was ever used for saving anything). E.g. j and k for scrolling up and down, / and ? for searching, etc. For example they work with the "less" pager in Unix.