I'm the guy kansface mentioned. I've spent a decent amount of time figuring out how to make my programming experience better. I've tried almost every editor ou

I'm the guy kansface mentioned. I've spent a decent amount of time figuring out how to make my programming experience better. I've tried almost every editor out there: Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text, Textmate, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and Atom. I've customized them all with plugins. I've even written plugins for most of them. My first editor was pico, quickly followed by Vim. My toolsmithing goes beyond editors. I've tried different keyboard layouts to improve typing speed, settling on dvorak with qwerty shortcuts. I even gave chording keyboards a shot. I built Ag[1] to search code faster.[2] I don't own a mouse. If I want to point at something, I use a trackpad. Switching to/from it is much faster than grabbing a mouse. People don't want to hear this, but I could not be as fast in Vim. Even if Vim had every feature in my current setup, it would still be slower because Vimscript executes synchronously. Executing plugin code blocks Vim's UI. If a plugin spawns a subprocess, the UI will be blocked until it exits. With Vim, you can't start a search and examine another file while it's running. This problem can be worked-around by using multiple Vims or searching from the command line, but then you lose quick opening/replacing of results. You can also abuse certain AutoCmds and updatetime to get a sort-of working async execution, but it requires each plugin have its own event loop. I agree with kansface: Vim users may type less, but they don't move faster. I have yet to see a Vim user who has impressed me with their speed. I typically see wasted motion, waiting for commands to finish, and fixing mistakes in regexes. Even your example invocations are as good or better in Sublime Text. I want to add an extra parameter to this method I just wrote. ... I just press "f)" to jump to the closing parentheses and start adding text. That does not jump to the end of the function definition. That does a search for ) on the current line. If your cursor isn't on the right line, you're SOL. Also, ) shows up in many places. It may not be part of a function definition in the language used. In my setup, "cmd + r, up" goes to the previous function definition no matter the language. If I want to go to the end, that's ctrl + m. I want to replace everything on the current line, starting from my cursor position somewhere in the middle of that line. ... I instead just press "c$" and start adding text. For me, that's ctrl + shift + e, (start typing). Unless you have a $ key, both are three keystrokes. If you use Vim and you're happy with it, great. But I would heavily discourage anyone from switching to Vim. Editors and UIs have come a long way in the past 25 years. Even with nerdtree, YCM, and other plugins, Vim can't catch up. NeoVim looks promising, since it fixes Vim's architectural problems. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/ https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/ 2. http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-than-ack/ http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-...