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> I know you mentioned 'some might object to the mouse use', but I would argue that a large number of people who prefer modal editors like Vi(m) do so because they can be driven completely by the keyboard and don't require you to use the mouse - which is disruptive and annoying (IMHO), obviously YMMV.

For some of us annoying is the least of the problem. Using the mouse to edit for more than an hour or two causes me crippling pain. Without Vim, or something else that would allow me to avoid the mouse 100%, I'm not sure I'd still be able to edit code at all.

Not every developer will develop RSI problems, but fewer would if they used a mouseless workflow.

You should've kept reading then. That's my personal preference but there are a million navigation commands.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/keyboard-shortcuts-and-m...

which reminded me of another big thing I miss out on when using a text editor: navigate to superclass/declaration/implementation and "Find Usages" for a given function, class or variable.

And you can enable mouse in vim if you really want. You can reproduce the 2nd point with ideavim's "ib" (inner block) selection (it's not the same though). So click -> ibc -> type your new thing > ESC .