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by jarin 5407 days ago
I still click around in MacVim sometimes (mostly for navigating deep NERDtree hierarchies and for selecting text within a line).

It's all about what's going to be fastest and take the least amount of mental context switching. I didn't choose vim because it's so hard to move to the mouse occasionally, I chose it because some things are much faster/easier than in TextMate, and for some things the mouse is still faster.

Sure, from a purist point of view it's terrible, but I think vim mastery has diminishing returns at some point (granted, it's a pretty far point up the learning curve).