What are you talking about? I suspect you haven't used vim recently. In the context of the command line Ctrl+C sends SIGINT, which usually interrupts/terminate

What are you talking about? I suspect you haven't used vim recently. In the context of the command line Ctrl+C sends SIGINT, which usually interrupts/terminates a program. When I press Ctrl+C, vim shows "Type :qa and press <Enter> to exit Vim". All my command line programs handle it as SIGINT. Imposing Ctrl+C as copy would be inconsistent and surprising. If I'm using Visual Studio with vim keybindings Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V are still copy/paste (I suspect this is because VS provides this and the keybindings don't override it). I think every other editor with vim keybindings I've used preserves this behavior. Ctrl-C as copy is consistent with every other windowed program I'm running. Where have you encountered vim keybindings that don't permit this?