"It certainly takes some time to learn how to do things, macros, search and replace, move blocks of text, install some good plugins, etc... All of this is incre

"It certainly takes some time to learn how to do things, macros, search and replace, move blocks of text, install some good plugins, etc... All of this is incredibly fast and ergonomic as opposed to move your right hand to the arrow keys every now and then. " This explains it so perfectly. The arrow keys are not a penalty. They are 1. clearly labeled, and 2. available on every keyboard. Using them is intuitive. They require no knowledge or memorization. Yes, I have to move my right hand to them, just as I have to occasionally move my right hand to the mouse and/or trackpad. I am not performing data entry. I am editing a file, often a configuration file of some sort. Speed is not the issue; accuracy of the changes being made are. Even when I'm coding in an IDE, I'm not touch-typing like a 1960s typist. I spend more time thinking/contemplating than typing. It's not a vi/vim thing. Emacs was just as confusing to me. I'm not proposing or suggesting anything so much as observing how a new, less effective technique of consuming HN was given praise "just because it's done in Terminal". There is a perverse hatred of the GUI or even things considered intuitive in the linux world, which I understand are inherited from the unix world, which is very, very old. I just don't understand why we can't pay homage to that legacy, but still advance the needle. What the developer did was nice, showed skill, deserves some props, but not useful. Making a character-based editor that could be used by grandma for the next 20 years in linux would be.