"Wait. You don't use hjkl and you also don't use the arrow keys anymore. So how would you, say, move left one character?" Easy: :call cursor('.', col('.')

"Wait. You don't use hjkl and you also don't use the arrow keys anymore. So how would you, say, move left one character?" Easy: :call cursor('.', col('.')+1) "There's a very good reason for keeping the most-used movement keys on the home row" I can't touch type, I'm sorry, I know little kittens will die because of me. "You'll find yourself becoming an hjkl master in no time." I don't want to. It's that simple - one has to decide when he should stop searching for efficiency and should start focusing on other thing. For me this moment came when I saw how efficient and pleasant I can be with 4w or 2(ciw. Also, for me - without touch typing - hjkl is meaningless. I'm that much slower than you that moving my hand to arrows doesn't slow me down at all. Even if I could touch type, I still wouldn't be convinced. I think that M,L,H together with word, sentence and paragraph movements is much more of a gain than hjkl anyway. And I just DON'T move my cursor by one character, because I find ciw, ca" and friends much more convenient.