Some strengths: 1. vi is ubiquitous. So if you're even in a situation where you SSH into another machine, knowing how to use the basics of vi is valuable. 2.

Some strengths: 1. vi is ubiquitous. So if you're even in a situation where you SSH into another machine, knowing how to use the basics of vi is valuable. 2. vim's modal editing is very expressively powerful. That's why vi-emulation (or now embedding) plugins are so popular. -- Yes, it's worth learning enough of vim's motions here. (My favourite example is e.g. `printf("hello| world");`, you can type 'change text inside `"`' using the sequence `ci"`).