[ehsankia]

But "keystroke" is a very strange metric. In terms of speed, it's often much faster to just ctrl+a and rewrite it from scratch. The mental gymnastic in trying to compute in your head the difference of characters is definitely non-trivial. It only really works if the thing you're replacing has the exact same number of characters in it.

Can you explain the exact scenario you use it in, I honestly can't think of a scenario where insert is useful.

[prepend]

Are you trying to tell me that the computes I do in my own head aren’t efficient? That’s pretty funny as I even have a tough time measuring that.

It’s hard to come up with exact examples because it’s actually subconscious and as automatic as touch typing for me. Thinking back, when I’m on one line with the cursor maybe halfway through, I’ll hit down arrow, alt arrow to the word I want to rename, hit insert, type over it, hit insert. I think I did it when trying to clarify some documentation. I’ll be on the lookout in the near future, but unlikely to report back here unless it happens to happen really soon.

[ehsankia]

The opposite, I'm saying that your brain might be way more efficient than mine if you can pull that off, because whenever I try to use insert mode, I have a brainfart and get way confused.

[always_good]

My friend's wife uses CapsLock instead of Shift for each and all capitalization needs, even the sort of capitalization done in this sentence.

[ehsankia]

See, at least that's not as bad, since you're basically going Capslock -> letter -> capslock, so it's easy to get your brain used to that. With insert mode, you need to think as fast as you type about how many letters you're overwriting.