Vim and Emacs have advanced navigation modes that can totally make up for lacking mouse support. On the console, many use cases where you'd need copy&paste can

Vim and Emacs have advanced navigation modes that can totally make up for lacking mouse support. On the console, many use cases where you'd need copy&paste can be covered by autocompleters. For example branch names in version control. Someday I'll have to look into how to write my own... Edit: with !, you can execute a shell command and watch its output without leaving Vim.