[methodin]

By the same token it would be a great way for new users to learn vim while maintaining the comforts of ctrl-c ctrl-v and tab indents etc...

[akmiller]

MacVim is great for that (if, of course, you are on a mac). It has all the great vi stuff along with the core OS style commands that everyone is familiar with. I believe gVim on Windows does the same but I'm not positive on that.

[kisielk]

See :behave mswin

[alexis-d]

How would you do that? ctrl-v for instance is really useful in Vim.