What converted me to vim was understanding that the commands are composable. For instance: the d key is used to delete, and de deletes to the end of word. But i

What converted me to vim was understanding that the commands are composable. For instance: the d key is used to delete, and de deletes to the end of word. But it doesn't end there. Typing t followed by a character goes to the next instance of the character in the current line, so if you type dt followed by that character it will delete everything just before it. If you play around with different commands, and practise navigating through a file this way, it's only one step to editing a file in the same way you navigate through it.