I do believe the arguments about using vim for productivity gains are somewhat silly. I probably spend most of my time thinking about code rather than typing/ed

I do believe the arguments about using vim for productivity gains are somewhat silly. I probably spend most of my time thinking about code rather than typing/editing it. However if I want to convert a thought into code, I can do it very quickly. That being said, using vim is just so much more comfortable. When I want to move to a certain location in a file, I don't think about what I want to do. The movement comes out of muscle memory, just like I would move my limbs to walk over a large rock in a challenging terrain. I think that comfort of being able to keep my hands on home-row and quickly jump to anywhere on the screen and beyond is what really sold me on vim. (I've been using vim for about 5 years and it probably took at least 1 year to get to this level of comfort.) In that sense, I can fully understand (predominantly) Windows users preferring their mouse as they choice of movement - but I do look down on them with a certain sense of imagined superiority.