It's curious that vim uses modes and it is actually one of the things I really like about it. A lot of HCI talks about how modes are "evil" because the user ca

It's curious that vim uses modes and it is actually one of the things I really like about it. A lot of HCI talks about how modes are "evil" because the user can get confused and what mode they are in. I do occasionally issue a command from the wrong mode but I find that the time to correct is usually extremely small and far outweighs having to create more cumbersome bindings that don't have collisions in other modes.