I agree. Once you settle into vim, your productivity increases threefold. I can copy the contents of a string and paste it somewhere else in about 6 keystrokes.
I've not yet found anything that can compare.
I've not yet found anything that can compare.
I like Yehuda Katz for trying to stick with TextMate, when he could have jumped on the emacs/vim bandwagon much sooner than he did. Maybe for a rockstar-ninja like Katz, it does result in a productivity increase.
But for myself (and most of the rest of us, I argue), the bottleneck in my productivity is most definitely not the speed at which I can copy/paste or any other mechanism involved in editing text and refactoring. Even without vim, I can already manipulate text FAR faster than I can think, architect, specify, and code.
The cynical atheist part of me says that emacs/vim is a hipster credential for regular people who just want to feel like rockstar-ninjas.