Modes doesn’t mean Vi-like; just that you can have multiple commands on the same bindings. The power of Vi is in the grammar. It’s fairly intuitive to combine

Modes doesn’t mean Vi-like; just that you can have multiple commands on the same bindings. The power of Vi is in the grammar. It’s fairly intuitive to combine motions with verbs, and you can string together chains of commands without much thought. For example, “04wd$VU” would uppercase the first four words in a line and delete the rest of the line. I don’t think something like that would be achievable with the basic key mapping that Mle has.