[gpderetta]

Some people can craft the perfect command ahead of time to execute an series of editing operations on the first try. Some other people (/raises hand) prefer to visual incremental feedback on an in-progress operation and be able to partially undo mistakes as they go.

[skydhash]

With Vim it’s all local decision unless writing a macro or regex substitution would take less time (the structure is very repetitive). Often it’s just n.n.n.n. (Next search occurence and repeat last edit)

[reportgunner]

People coming from word or notepad have no idea what 'n.n.n.n.' is supposed to be - they know how a cursor works though.