[emanuelev]

> Although, in my experience of using vim, the mental effort of working out what character I needed for t/f tended to be far more disruptive than just using arrow keys/mouse.

I think you maybe didn't give it enough time. What really happens after a while is that you don't have to do any mental effort to do very complex things fast and efficiently. My experience is that after three months I had some sort of clicking in my head and everything made sense.

Said that, I wouldn't mind Ctrl-D on vim though, that's one of those sublime's features that I really like (and non consecutive multi line editing).

[aninhumer]

I gave it several years as my primary editor, and I did learn a lot of things. Then I switched to Sublime and became about as proficient in a matter of weeks. I could have put more effort into learning vim, but I didn't have to in Sublime.