If you're a little pragmatic about it like me, you can still use the arrow keys to move around, at least in vim this works out of the box. I've been using VIM

If you're a little pragmatic about it like me, you can still use the arrow keys to move around, at least in vim this works out of the box. I've been using VIM for over a decade now, and learned to make good use of many of its features, but I've never had the urge to stop using the arrow keys. Except when working remotely to some ancient Sun or HP box that only has vi, or some crappy terminal settings that mess up the arrow keys. The idea behind hjkl is that it's supposed to be faster because you don't have to move your hands away from the letter keys, but in practice, I don't actually move around in single-character increments that much when editing anyway. All I want now is XCode with VIM bindings :-(