Yes. What editor are you talking about? The reason I ask is because in vim, I can move the cursor with my arrow keys when I'm in insert mode, and if I wanted t

Yes. What editor are you talking about? The reason I ask is because in vim, I can move the cursor with my arrow keys when I'm in insert mode, and if I wanted to, I can select blocks of text with my mouse, without pressing any key to change mode. In addition to those features I can move about more efficiently without moving my hands from the keyboard, by changing mode. I touch-type, and I write for a living, so this is quite important to me, but assuming the features you mention are the most important ones to you and that you don't want to change modes, you can still do the things you say you can't. Well, I can. Not sure if you can, but I'm fairly sure it's not due to any limitation of vim. I'm curious how you appear to be mistaken in some very basic facts.