Long time VI(M) user here, probably starting in the 80's. I don't think it's the best, nor do I think it's for everyone. It's just what I'm comfortable with a

Long time VI(M) user here, probably starting in the 80's. I don't think it's the best, nor do I think it's for everyone. It's just what I'm comfortable with at a deep memory muscle level. And a confession - I probably only use 25% of what its capabilities are. And some of what I do is totally "wrong" like when not inserting I use K for up, Enter to go down and space to go right. If I want to go to the beginning of a line, I hit enter (down) which takes me to the beginning of the next line. Then K (up) to get to the line. Totally "wrong" but it's what I've done for years and do it without even thinking about it. It kind of brings to mind this bit from the first Perl State of the Onion... "...I believe that learnability is a laudable goal, but frequently misplaced. The purpose of a language is not to help you learn the language, but to help you learn other things by using the language. We don’t water down English to make it easy to learn. We prefer English to remain a rich language, quirky, sloppy, and full of redundancy. Same for Perl. A corollary to that is, while we don’t water down the language itself, we do allow people to speak subsets of the language. We don’t expect a five-year-old to speak with the same diction as a fifty-year-old. We don’t expect a native German speaker to use the same subset of English as a native Mandarin speaker. Similarly, we don’t look down on people for using subsets of Perl. There are certainly enough of them. You can write Perl programs that resemble sed, or awk, or C, or Lisp, or Python. This is Officially Okay in Perl culture. By way of contrast, try writing in the C subset of C++ and they’ll make a laughingstock of you."