[satvikpendem]

You mean like yy versus ctrl+c? You can definitely use a Vim browser/OS extension but Vim does it that way because the creator, I suppose, perceived that his user interface is better than what's already there. And I tend to agree. I don't need uniformity if it'll be inefficient.

[zopa]

vi and emacs don’t follow desktop conventions because they predate desktop conventions (and vim of course follows vi)