Now I wouldn’t do this myself but… If you want stay in insert mode most of the time you could use Ctrl-o to switch to command mode for a single command and the

Now I wouldn’t do this myself but… If you want stay in insert mode most of the time you could use Ctrl-o to switch to command mode for a single command and then be immediately returned to insert mode. Eg Ctrl-o de To delete to the end of the current word. Again, I definitely wouldn't do it that way but vim makes pretty much everything possible.