If it's a command we start to use often we bind it to a shortcut (If I may presume to speak for emacs users). It's not much different than shell commands. Som

If it's a command we start to use often we bind it to a shortcut (If I may presume to speak for emacs users). It's not much different than shell commands. Some you just type, some you create an alias/function shortcut for. I recently discovered an emacs package that lets me type M-x and then the first letter or two of a command that I used recently and it completes it for me from there (smex.el). That's even easier than coming up with a new keybinding. Just to try and help you understand how emacs users see it, your most common vim commands that are a single character are actually sometimes a single character and sometimes they need to be prefixed by an ESC to get you into the right mode. That inconsistency is what killed me when I tried to use vim. In emacs every command is always the same, no need to keep track of what mode I'm in.