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Just a note, that for a person used to working in say, vim - having to take a hand off the keyboard in order to use the mouse (or touch the screen) essentially feels like changing to selection mode. Putting hand back on keyboard is like going back to insert mode.

The key difference is of course that "learning" to use the mouse, or the touch screen - feels much more natural than some arcane key combination.

So, if you already know the combinations for switching modes (both the arcane key combo, and the "process" of moving one hand from the keyboard to the mouse, and back again) - you are comparing different things - typically "efficiency".

While I'm a vim user, and unlikely to ever go back to using a mouse, due to RSS injuries - I still thing something like ACME[1] is likely more efficient than vim. On the other hand, the act of editing is plenty efficient in vim for me.

[1] Russ Cox "An introduction to the ACME editor": https://youtu.be/dP1xVpMPn8M

http://acme.cat-v.org/