> To me the kinds of people using these editors are the kinds of people that love making everything more complex to seem smart. I finally jumped the gun almost

> To me the kinds of people using these editors are the kinds of people that love making everything more complex to seem smart. I finally jumped the gun almost a decade ago because I had too many Electron apps for my cheap laptop to handle and had to scale down to be able to get anything done without freezes. At first the modal editing was difficult but it clicked immediately and these days I'm handicapped in normal typing. I still type vim motions by accident in Libreoffice which is the last program I use that doesn't support modal editing. Lately I'm getting around that by typing in markdown and using pandoc to convert it to `.odt` or `.docx`. > every possible extension you already need In Vim land the first step isn't to install an extension, it's to create a keybinding. It can be as simple as a one-liner, to a shell script or even command-line tools. You can run it on the filename, the file contents, or the selection. The only limit is your imagination and experience. You don't really get it yet because you're conditioned into thinking the way you're used to, not how it could be done. It has nothing to do with looking smart, I don't care what others think. Could it be your own coping mechanism for feeling dumb about not being able to use it?