I wondered about that, too, but I haven't noticed a feeling of being constrained or blinkered. I'm editing 85 rows and 35 columns with a pleasantly-large font.

I wondered about that, too, but I haven't noticed a feeling of being constrained or blinkered. I'm editing 85 rows and 35 columns with a pleasantly-large font. Check your editing space inside an IDE - is it really that much larger? My guess is that (1) any function I'm writing is generally entirely within view anyway, and (2) with Vim I never scroll around looking for something, I jump directly to it with a search command.