In notepad it takes 4 keystrokes (ctrl+c, ctrl+v). The "mouse hampers productivity" viewpoint seems like a form of neckbeard neo-luddism to me. I mean, I hate

In notepad it takes 4 keystrokes (ctrl+c, ctrl+v). The "mouse hampers productivity" viewpoint seems like a form of neckbeard neo-luddism to me. I mean, I hate visual IDEs (/cough Xcode) and WYSIWYGs as much as anybody. But the mouse was invented because keyboards suck at navigating. I love my mouse. I like Yehuda Katz for trying to stick with TextMate, when he could have jumped on the emacs/vim bandwagon much sooner than he did. Maybe for a rockstar-ninja like Katz, it does result in a productivity increase. But for myself (and most of the rest of us, I argue), the bottleneck in my productivity is most definitely not the speed at which I can copy/paste or any other mechanism involved in editing text and refactoring. Even without vim, I can already manipulate text FAR faster than I can think, architect, specify, and code. The cynical atheist part of me says that emacs/vim is a hipster credential for regular people who just want to feel like rockstar-ninjas.