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I've recently picked up vim the past couple weeks. Finding that it is very pleasant in many ways, though there are still some occasions where it feels like being very stubbornly inefficient to refuse to use a mouse. Does that feeling ever go away?

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It does. But use a mouse if you want to!

there are builds (macvim, etc) that are good with mice, if it bugs you too much. obviously, the terminal-oriented versions wouldn't do great on this front (as far as i'm aware). i find the mouse mostly nice for scrolling (which i believe does work for me for neovim on arch linux in dwm, but ymmv) at this point, but, yes, for the most part that feeling subsides when you really start to grok the navigation in normal mode (by paragraph, etc.)

:set mouse=a

Yes

Actually, it's even better (or worse): you'll become increasingly annoyed using other applications, where there should be a very "native" keyboard-only command mode or at least mouse-free method to do stuff, but there isn't.

I'm looking at you GtkFileChooser (or almost any GUI file browser for that matter)

This is so true. I shout to the heavens when having to use another editor at work and thinking "doing this in vim" would go faster.

I love that Firefox desktop can start searching with a '/' keystroke! I think Chrome can do it too, but I can't recall.

Hopefully other applications will pick up more of these over time

If you didn't know it check out the Tridactyl plugin for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...

Highly recommended.

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