OP and other commenters mentioned years of experience using Vim to support the claim that their usage of the mouse is likely to be necessary. And while they mi

OP and other commenters mentioned years of experience using Vim to support the claim that their usage of the mouse is likely to be necessary. And while they might be right (or wrong), I'd love to see a good example that demonstrate that claim. As to myself, I've been using Vim for over 10 years, yet I think it tells nothing of my proficiency with Vim. It's easy enough to become dangerous enough with Vim to surpass any past traditional editor one has used before that (excluding emacs) yet it's just as easy to let one's skills slowly plateau (as I'm surely been prone to over the years). I rarely use a pointing device while in vim/tmux (an exception is when using a lot of splits which I probably should avoid using anyway). btw the pointing device I'm using is a trackpad mounted on top of my Kinesis Advantage keyboard which means I don't have to take my palm off the keyboard to use the mouse (it is _not_ an argument to say that despite the short distance I almost never use the mouse in vim/tmux but just a side note and a setup that I recommend if you already own a Kinesis Advantage or a similar keyboard)