One day we may get a vim or even emacs mode for gdb, who knows? Until then, I will continue to "enjoy" interacting with the data of the program under debugger in the ed-style, like a True Programmer™.

The stories have it that back in the days some people could read actual core dumps with the tips of their fingers à la Braille, but surely that's just an urban myth.

gdb has changed a lot since 01999.