This is just making it all the more apparent that you didn't really grok vim while you were using it. to get to a paragraph you can use navigation keys, you can

This is just making it all the more apparent that you didn't really grok vim while you were using it. to get to a paragraph you can use navigation keys, you can click on it with your mouse, you can jump to a line directly by its number, relative or absolute, you can search for a snippet of text inside of it. There's a myriad of ways you can move your cursor so that you can perform actions on a specific block of text, which includes the way you would do so in a normal text editor. > Now again some thinking needs here is it a code block between curly braces {} or is it a textual paragraph but why is that thinking required when I can actually see it in front of me and select it. There is almost no overhead to performing this action when you are even modestly proficient in vim, no more than the cognitive load it takes you to decide you must use a mouse to select that portion of text, which also requires more precision since you must accurately place the cursor both at the start and end points.