[glynch]

I prefer remapping capslock to control for easier use of commands like <C-f>, <C-b>, <C-e>, <C-h>, and <C-l> (all of which were absent in the example vimrc posted). Using the leader key makes total sense for dealing with splits and buffers or plugins you might want to look into some of the other Control based commands that Vim supports.

[normalocity]

I use Ctrl-f and Ctrl-b (as well as Ctrl-e and Ctrl-y) pretty often, and you're right that there are no shortcuts for it in the provided example. Perhaps I should look into those as possible next targets. I guess I'm not entirely eliminating the Ctrl key from my vim usage (not that there's anything wrong with Ctrl, really), but you have a point.

I'm guessing I use Ctrl-e more often than :e - perhaps I should change that up.

There seems to be a lot of ringing endorsements for CapsLock as Ctrl in the comments.