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Oh man, you are going to get a ton of replies on this.

Short version: vim is not vi.

Longer version: I use vim because I am way faster with it than any standard editor. I personally barely customize my vim at all, but there is a large community whose hobby is installing dozens of plugins to turn it into a full IDE and/or making it a highly personalized experience.

How is it that nobody seems to know that every major editor has either vim mode or a vim plugin. I love vim, but I almost never use it directly. I usually use JetBrains IDE with vim plugin. Best of both worlds.

I've used a great many editors/IDEs and within a day of installing any vim mode or plugin I find multiple inconsistencies or errors that make my life worse.

Exception being spacemacs/evil, which is why that's the only thing I prefer using over vim

Normal mode navigation, macros, (mostly because I end up editing a lot of repetitive old code), and marks so far. Using vim for vscode enables me to much more quickly bang out code.

Neovim is pushing the text editor space like nothing else.