> By contrast, in Vim you use $ to move to end of line, and ^ to move to begin of line. Not only is it unintuitive, it requires more strain of my hands/fingers

> By contrast, in Vim you use $ to move to end of line, and ^ to move to begin of line. Not only is it unintuitive, it requires more strain of my hands/fingers It is intuitive if you use regular expressions too because ^ and $ have (nearly) the same meaning there. But you’re right that your shortcuts work well too. Other shortcuts that come in useful with no non-Vim equivalent that I know of: vi" to select the content of a string ca" to change a string va{y to select and copy (“yank”) the contents of a curly-brace block } to move one paragraph forward ) to move one sentence forward v) to select the next sentence