[uticus]

Agree with improvements available in other editors.

But disagree with this:

> I never think "damn, typing 3dd would be so much faster than selecting 3 lines and hitting delete"

I actually do think that all the time, and get annoyed when I have to take the second or so to move away from the keyboard to find the mouse/trackpad.

Need to delete three lines, starting with line 54 at the top of your screen? 54gg 3dd

I would never reach for my mouse for that unless I had to.

[flashgordon]

This. Only thing is I dont even "think" about "3dd" and just do it. Great thing about VIM (and possibly emacs too) is that all the things the others improved can be brought to VIM and usually is. Writing plugins is O(1) no?