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For me, it's about comfort. No need to bounce my right hand between the home row, the arrow keys and the mouse. No need to stretch my left pinky to Ctrl and Shift for every shortcut. Everything is near the home row in Vim, by design.

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Comfort and reducing context switching overhead. Targeting a specific screen area with the mouse just takes way too much attention.

And I'd add language. With vim, you can hardwire your brain to your keyboard / editor, and use some sort of language to almost unconsciously express what you want to do. Like edit a typo, move a work, move a paragraph, capitalize this, etc.

Without vim, your language is limited to very basic actions that you need to repeat ad nauseam.

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