> it starts to feel like I'm talking to vim with a shorthand language This is like, the whole _point_ of Vim to me - much less about muscle memory and more abo

> it starts to feel like I'm talking to vim with a shorthand language This is like, the whole _point_ of Vim to me - much less about muscle memory and more about mnemonic ways of interacting with text. `ciw` is "change inside word", `da{` is "delete a tag", `yat` is yank a tag, etc. t and f are "to" and "through" (I think "froo" for that one). vf; is "visually select thru the next semicolon" for example. The whole combination of motions and text objects is the real magic of Vim for me. Also the g ex command is pretty great too.