[PaulHoule]

I switched from emacs to vim a few years ago.

One of them is that vim is actually closer to a windows/mac style editor than emacs is. You can navigate with the arrow keys, you just need keep track of being in insert mode or not. The things that are different are sufficiently different that you won't cross them up. Back in the emacs days I was always typing ^X^S into word or typing ^S in emacs when I want to save.

[catnaroek]

You can navigate Emacs with the arrow keys, too. (But C-v and M-v are much more pleasant to use.)

[PaulHoule]

But the \ at the end of lines screws up cut-and-paste in emacs. I can cut and paste between vim running in putty and most other apps.